I’ll be visiting Canada on a tourist visa this year and currently do not have a credit card. I’ve been told that Canada is largely cashless so I was looking for options for a reloadable visa prepaid card that I can use while there, came across Canada Posts offerings.
My question is, is it available to me as a tourist? Can I just go in to a Canada Post and buy one and leave with a card?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated
How do we gift visa or mastercard giftcards to a friend based in Canada, but the senders are all based abroad (so needs to be done online)
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We are a group of friends that met in grad school, currently spread out across 5 continents.
One of our friend's mom has stage 4 cancer and our friend is traveling back and forth between Toronto and China quite often. We just received work his mom is in her final days.
We want to help our friend with his travel expenses, but he doesn't fly with a particular airline. It's more who is the cheapest at the moment kind of thing. We're figuring out a way how to send money over to him.
Is Paypal the only option we have? Will multiple $300-$500 deposits over a short period of time trigger some sort of hold in his account?