Currency exchange places often offer checks just at the cost of the
exchange. They have accounts in each country they use.
Tom
On Friday, August 10, 2001 at 23:07, johnsonpa <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote on "Re: [OM] Jaap Korten/Wide Angle Pay," saying..
> One option is to send a 'bank draft' or 'foreign draft' to him.
> I did this to get a macrophoto stand, XD-E base and some other goodies
> (thanks Rudy). I'm not sure where you live, but a reasonably large town
> (250,000 in my case) should have a bank that can do one of these. I know of
> another person that had to order one from another city.
> Anyway, you take them cash (or check if you have an account), pay a fee
> ($10.00 in my case) and they will give you a check in whatever currency you
> want (Guilders for you) drawn to a bank in the destination country. The
> last part is important. You want it in the correct currency and from a bank
> with an address in the Netherlands. That way it (should) be just like any
> other check. Of course, I'm not sure it would be any different than cash.
> i.e. I don't think they will replace the $, like a money order, if it gets
> lost in the mail.
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