As a result of 2011, net income of Western Union has increased by 28% to $ 1.165 billion, the company reported. You do not need to open a bank account, so you can send or receive money in any of the 170 000 service points of Western Union around the world. Western Union for more than 130 years provides money transfer services to its customers. Western Union made so that the time in all of American civil services was the same.