🚀 go-pugleaf

Forget it!!

Australian banks are crap and they are crap because we inherited our banking
systems from the British.

Been there, done that, given up...

Ed Barron <ejbarron@our.net.au> wrote in message
news:3bb3c9f8.425660036@news.our.net.au...
> 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?
>
> Ed Barron  <ejbarron@our.net.au>