Hello Deb2409 and welcome!
I can certainly explain more about why that is. Lets say for example you would like to add funds to your PayPal account. When you start this process we send a message to your bank and your bank will process it, depending on the time and day, within 24 hours. They then send it to the federal reserve and then they send it to your PayPal account. When you want to withdraw money from your PayPal account and send it to your bank then the same process starts just the opposite way around. We process the money out of your PayPal account, Usually within 24 hours. Then we send it to the federal reserve and then it gets sent to your bank. So when you send money you'll general see the money clear out of your bank within a day, when you withdraw money it has to clear the whole process before you see it in your bank account.
Hope this clears things up!
**Helmute**
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