When PayPal didn't come to town

The service introduced is not PayPal, but Xoom

If there were anything that our growing number of IT freelancers would die for, it would be PayPal, one of the fastest, easiest and most popular online payment systems in the world. Our financial policy does not allow PayPal to function here, because our policymakers are under the impression that PayPal can be used to launder money out of the country—as if the existing system has succeeded in preventing money laundering.