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Re: Anyone tried Western Union money transfers?
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Date: 
Sun, 11 Mar 2001 06:03:48 GMT
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Commonwealth charges $5 for exchange of foreign cash.
National Australia Bank is no charge if you have an account with them.


Peter White <aztekium@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:GA077G.35E@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.loc.au, Jason King writes:
They are expensive. Commonwealth Bank charges $21 for a money transfer.
Plus they still take 7 days to clear.

It probably pays to keep a range of US$ in cash on hand, since even Amex • have
upped their currency conversion charges from $5 to $8. What do they think
they are a bank ? By the way what do banks charge for currency conversion, • I
haven't dared to ask.

Anyway, when you have cash in the appropriate currency, International • Express
Post it, this costs roughly the same as an IMO and gets there in 2-4 days.

pw (American Express - can't heave loam without it)



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I changed some AU$ for US$ at NAB, and they didn't change me anything, and I don't have an account with them. Maybe I was just lucky, but I will go back to that branch just in case. Martin (S) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason King" (...) (24 years ago, 11-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

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(...) It probably pays to keep a range of US$ in cash on hand, since even Amex have upped their currency conversion charges from $5 to $8. What do they think they are a bank ? By the way what do banks charge for currency conversion, I haven't dared (...) (24 years ago, 10-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

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