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Article #2546Re: Handling foreign payments.
From: Stefano Pagiola
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 16:57
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 16:57
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International Money Orders are probably the best way to handle foreign payments when credit cards can't be used. The charges imposed by banks on out-of-country checks (even things like EuroCheques, which can be denominated in dollars) are simply outrageous. Its been a while since I got one, but I remember the procedure was something like: (1) find exchange rate in newspaper, (2) compute $ equivalent of amount owed, (3) go to post office (4) wait half an hour in line :-( (4) buy Int'l money order for dollar amount, (5) send it to recipient, who can cash it at local post office for local currency equivalent. I believe the same should work in the other direction. -- - Stefano Pagiola Food Research Institute, Stanford University spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!news From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) Subject: Re: Handling foreign payments. Message-ID: <1992Sep3.165714.14129@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Reply-To: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu Organization: DSO, Stanford University References: <SCOTT.92Sep3005800@nic.gac.edu> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 16:57:14 GMT Lines: 20