Foreigners living and working in Papua New Guinea can send money to their overseas home countries using Western Money Union from capital city Port Moresby or any other major towns in the country. Western Money Union services is the most popular overseas money transfer counter services in Papua New Guinea.
Sending Money overseas via Western Union in Papua New Guinea.
There are lots of foreigners living and working in the capital city Port Moresby and rest provinces in Papua New Guinea. Most of them are from South East Asian nations like Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, China, Philippines, Vietnam, India, Sri Lanka and others. Also, from East Asia nations like Japan, South Korea and etc.
Second, largest group of expatriates are usual Western Countries like US, Europeans, Australians and New Zealanders.
A larger proportion of the Asian origins are involved in Agriculture, Forestry, Education, Fisheries, retail, and medical industries in the country. So, Western Union services are mainly used by Asians and people from developing countries to remit money back to their home countries from Papua New Guinea. Wester Union money transfer services are available in partnership with two major local companies in PNG. Post PNG Limited and Bank of South Pacific.
Western Money Union Services at Post PNG Outlets
Post PNG Limited is the country’s oldest Postal Services Company. It was part of PNG
first state owned Telecommunications company called Post & Telecommunications Company (PTC) right after Papua New Guinea got independence from Australia in 1975. It PTC was later separated into two entities. One was Telikom PNG which is now the state owned Telecommunications Company and Post PNG Limited which is Postal Services and Logistics company in the country.
Because Post PNG Limited has a vast network of outlets and agents in all the 21 provinces of the country, it has partnered with Western Money Union to provide the service to foreigners in the country. Regardless of where they are living in the country, they can transfer money overseas using Western Money Union from any the Post PNG Service centres.
Banking services are not available in some of the some of the district towns. Most bank branches are available only in provincial capital towns.
Western Money Union Services at Bank South Pacific (BSP)
Second local company that partners with Western Union is the Bank South Pacific (BSP). BSP Bank started as the first State owned bank during the Independence Period. It was called PNG Banking Corporation (PNGBC) but later in 1996-1998 it was privatized and changed its name to Bank of South Pacific when it was bought off by Bank South Pacific which was a smaller investment and lending bank at that time.
Today BSP has the largest network of Branches and agents in the country. So, Western Union Service is available as part of the customer service counter in all the major branches around the country. Foreigners can easily use Western Union Services.
Popular Western Money Union Outlets in Port Moresby city.
Since, temperature in Port Moresby, the capital city is hot and humid, doing basic business activities like banking, shopping and etc can be quit taxing during the weekdays. This is also compounded by public bus transport system which does not function on time schedule. So it’s inconvenient for people to move around the city to do business using the public taxi or bus systems.
So, the convenient and Western Money Union outlets in Moresby
- Post PNG-Vision City Shopping Mall
- Post PNG-UPNG Waigani Campus
- Post PNG-Brian Bell Shopping Centre-Gordons
- Post PNG-Water Font Shopping Mall
- Post PNG-Head office-Konedobu
- Post PNG-Boroko Post Office
- Any BSP Bank Branch in the city.
Wester Money Union Outlets in the Provincial Towns
- Post PNG Post offices in each provincial towns
- Bank South Pacific branch in the provincial town.
Note that, in most Provincial Towns there is only one BSP Bank and Post PNG Post Office. So, it’s good to ask locals or do internet search for the location before visiting the place.
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Post PNG Post Offices locations
