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David V. Henkel-Wallace writes
>    My problem is that my bank wants $35 to turn a check drawn on a
>    German bank into dollars in my account.  This is _not_ including
>    changing the money, if that's needed.  Since NeXT is such a  
world-wide
>    machine, I'm most likely not alone in this problem.  But, I've
>    never seen any postings about it.
> 
> We quote our prices in dollars ask that foreign payments be made by
> wire xfer.  Since these come in via the federal reserve clearing
> system, our bank doesn't charge for these.
> 
> We have a standard letter we fax to overseas customers, for them to
> give to _their_ bank.  It lists our bank's name, address, telex #,
> federal bank ID (it maybe called something else -- don't have the
> letter in front of me) etc.
> 

Warning: not all banks do this for free.  My bank, for one, charges  
ten dollars for the privilege of handling your wire for you.  Also, I  
believe there is a charge to the sender.


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Stefano Pagiola
Food Research Institute, Stanford University
spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)