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In article <3bb3c9f8.425660036@news.our.net.au>, Ed Barron 
<ejbarron@our.net.au> writes
>I have given up on my Australian bank, and its fully owned subsidiary
>bank in UK.
>
>I had assumed (? wrongly) that associated banks would find it easy to
>transfer currency between UK and Australia.
>
>However, the UK Bank will not accept faxes, except where I take the
>full responsibility for any errors, including theirs - and my past
>experience with them does not impress me on that score!
>
>Using letters posted by Express Air Mail, and also filling in their
>own documents which are supposed to speed the transaction, it takes a
>minimum of 10 days, and often as much as two weeks, to effect a
>transfer of funds.
>
>There is also the matter of the uncertainty with regard to the actual
>exchange rate used for the transaction, as the decision has to be made
>several days before thetransfer, and the exchange rate can change
>appreciably over that period.
>
>Does anyone have any experience of a better, more certain method of
>arranging currency transfers between UK and Australia, where I could
>expect an immediate (i.e. within 24 hours) response to my requests?

Do you want to have the remittance made within 24 hours, or it received 
by the beneficiary within 24 hrs?

-- 
john boyle