Ok, I finally got my new "temporary" card after
6 weeks (!). Did Paxum send the card by ship? Otherwise this would hardly be possible. I didn't know "envelope mail" is still being "shipped" nowadays.
Ok, so I finally get my card and was able to fund it with
$500 (I think that's the max per day or funding).
Now get this... Off I go to the nearest and dearest ATM to my heart, happy to have finally received, activated and funded my shining brand
new card. Everything goes well, code accepted, money getting counted and then the card being in the process of coming out of the machine again. For security reasons, the already counted and ready money stays inside the ATM until the card has been ejected.
Suddenly, the machine
makes some funny noises while trying to eject the card, managing to get it out about half a centimeter (that's around 0.2 inch), then retracting it again. After doing this a couple of times, the ATM pulls the card back inside the machine and lets it drop into a
special box inside. You can hear the money whirling around inside the machine and the bills getting sorted and being re-stacked -
leaving me with no money and no card.
I WAS NOT CHARGED FOR THIS TRANSACTION but was left with no money and no card which later proved to have been
a mechanical error on part of the ATM. I
finally get someone responsible on the line and he tells me, they send all cards in
that box to a company which then sends it back to the issuing bank (in this case, Paxum being over
1,500 km or roughly
950 miles away, presumably taking
another 6 weeks to arrive back in Canada.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! 
Ah, that felt good!
Kind of clears your throat as well.
Thanks and I hope this info will be useful. Make sure that you
wipe off all the lubricants that are still on the card from the production process or better yet, get the cash
inside a bank. The card itself -
intended only as a temporary card - was understandably the cheapest model available.
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