Quote Originally Posted by jaydisc View Post
I don't think the vintage of your account is too relevant. Any PayPal user can maintain balances in any and as many (or few) currencies as they want. I keep US and AU active on mine. If you only keep one currency active and receive a payment in another, it will try to convert it to one of your existing currencies, which might not be ideal.
Fair enough. It's old enough that it was set up as a USD account by default (before PayPal explicitly set up in Australia), and I guess since I pretty much use PayPal for USD transactions, the possibilty of AUD funds has simply never come up for me