I may have the best solution yet. I use a company in California called AFEX
(www.afex.com). They will issue a check, drafted in the currency of your
choice, with no account and no draft fees. And the beauty is I can call or
email them, tell them what I need, they respond with the dollar amount, I
write a personal check, fax a copy of the check to them, and they send out
my international check the same day! If interested, ask for Christopher
Empett - he's been more than helpful.
Scott Christie
SloMoIV@aol.com
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Money Orders
08/07/01 12:13 PM
Please respond to
SloMoIV
In a message dated 8/7/01 12:26:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
wiencek@anl.gov
writes:
<< I thought I would share my experience with getting a money order in a
foreign currency. It is quite easy. Just go to your local post office
(USA)
and ask for an international money order. The fee is $8.50 (much better
than
the $15 my bank was charging.) and they can be issued for up to $700. The
post office will give you a receipt and you mail it to an address in
St.Louis. They will mail the money order directly to the person in the
foreign country. The catch is that is takes 4-6 weeks according the the
form!! (We shall see if this is true.)
>>
Another alternative might be, if available in your area, a Thomas Cook
Currency Exchange. As of three years ago (before Tom became the first SAOC
member to act as a U.S. membership clearinghouse) they were also charging
about $8-9 for int'l money orders, with no wait.
Dick Sanders
Seattle
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