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Subject: Re: Singapore: traveller cheques or ATM? Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:01:57 +0000 (UTC)


"Tchiowa" wrote in message
news:b08529e0.0310221744.38b56880@posting.google.com...
> "Sjoerd" wrote in message
news:<3f96cfb0$0$58702$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>...
> > "Markku Grönroos" schreef in bericht
> > news:bn6890$3br$1@phys-news1.kolumbus.fi...
> > >
> > > "Peter L" wrote in message
> > > news:bn3m9m$shq5g$1@ID-110472.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Depends on your bank. My bank charges $2.00 per transaction. So I
take
> > out
> > > > a large sum each time.
> > > >
> > > Hmmm.... To fill one's pockets by wads of notes, just to "save" a few
> > bucks.
> > >
> >
> > Hmmm ...to fill one's pockets by wads of travellers cheques, just for
the
> > wrongly perceived convenience and cost savings of an antique way of
getting
> > foreign currency.
>
> *EXTREMELY* well put.

I always emphasize that TCs are not a saving compared plactic. You are just
an illiterate bunch. Perhaps you see cards somehow as a miracle concept to
handle money. This is a case sometimes among people from technically under
developed countries. We have used plastic for ages in Finland and abroad
therefore it being no news to us.