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USPS round world trip for my parcel(ongoing)
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Foo2rama
··Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...It’s k that’s i
The joys of OCR....
Wow, the Austria/Australia confusion happens in Europe as well! A friend of mine had to send letters from the US to Austria and finally started addressing them
street
Vienna, Austria
EUROPE
because they kept taking the scenic route.
Pretty sad for one of the former Great Powers.
The joys of OCR....
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redzer007
·Is it a travel(ed) clock?
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Evitzee
·Everything is unpredictable these days. Last September I ordered a strap from TwoStich in Serbia and it turned up in my US mailbox in 10 days. Ordered another one last month (shipped December 22) and it took 30 days to be delivered. No obvious reason why it took an extra three weeks except it was at the tail end of the Christmas shipping, but an extra three weeks seems like a lot of added transit time.
Glad OP finally got the parcel...delayed as it was. Fortunately most parcels eventually get to the right place.
Glad OP finally got the parcel...delayed as it was. Fortunately most parcels eventually get to the right place.
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watchyouwant
·I bought an Omega rocket line clock in the middle of France. Shipped french post, but I always use EMS post courier. Was in Australia 5 days later..... I was hoping for 2 weeks because of not many freight flights to down Under..... not everything is bad . Kind regards. Achim
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sgrenald
·I grew up in Philadelphia, and read an article in the paper in the early 80s that went something like this: a man living in the Philly area sent his mother in Baltimore a check. She deposited it in her bank, and two weeks later, it still hadn't cleared. She went to the bank to find out what the problem was. The bank rep told her that international checks take 3-4 weeks to clear. "What do you mean, 'international?' My son sent me that check from Pennsylvania!" the rep responded with "Well, the check is from the Royal Bank of King of Prussia. That's in Germany, right?" 😁
(for those of you not familiar, King of Prussia is a town just outside of Philadelphia, and the site of one of the largest shopping malls in the US)
(for those of you not familiar, King of Prussia is a town just outside of Philadelphia, and the site of one of the largest shopping malls in the US)
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gatorcpa
··ΩF InvestiGatorI grew up in Philadelphia, and read an article in the paper in the early 80s that went something like this:
My first job after college was as a junior accountant for a rental building. Part of my duties was to reconcile the checkbook.
Anyway, one month I noticed a service charge for currency translation on the bank statement. However, there was no notation for any foreign checks on that statement.
I called the bank and was politely told that we had deposited a check from Puerto Rico, which uses foreign currency. I asked which foreign currency they used and was told “pesos”. Then I asked what was the going rate (circa 1983) for Puerto Rican Pesos. Didn’t get an answer to that one.
The last time Puerto Rico used pesos was in the 1860’s and still a Spanish colony. At the time a Spanish peso was equivalent to a US dollar. In fact, it was the currency on which the US monetary system was based!
I asked for the manager, explained the situation and of course, the charge was reversed.
We Americans can can be so stupid at times.
gatorcpa
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Foo2rama
··Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...No need to read an article, this actually happened to me.
My first job after college was as a junior accountant for a rental building. Part of my duties was to reconcile the checkbook.
Anyway, one month I noticed a service charge for currency translation on the bank statement. However, there was no notation for any foreign checks on that statement.
I called the bank and was politely told that we had deposited a check from Puerto Rico, which uses foreign currency. I asked which foreign currency they used and was told “pesos”. Then I asked what was the going rate (circa 1983) for Puerto Rican Pesos. Didn’t get an answer to that one.
The last time Puerto Rico used pesos was in the 1860’s and still a Spanish colony. At the time a Spanish peso was equivalent to a US dollar. In fact, it was the currency on which the US monetary system was based!
I asked for the manager, explained the situation and of course, the charge was reversed.
We Americans can can be so stupid at times.
gatorcpa
lol.
Still to this day issues with Puerto Rico being part of the US... my friend had a PR DL, got pulled over and hassled for not having a legit DL and not being a citizen.
he raised holy hell afterwards.
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kkt
·No need to read an article, this actually happened to me.
My first job after college was as a junior accountant for a rental building. Part of my duties was to reconcile the checkbook.
Anyway, one month I noticed a service charge for currency translation on the bank statement. However, there was no notation for any foreign checks on that statement.
I called the bank and was politely told that we had deposited a check from Puerto Rico, which uses foreign currency. I asked which foreign currency they used and was told “pesos”. Then I asked what was the going rate (circa 1983) for Puerto Rican Pesos. Didn’t get an answer to that one.
The last time Puerto Rico used pesos was in the 1860’s and still a Spanish colony. At the time a Spanish peso was equivalent to a US dollar. In fact, it was the currency on which the US monetary system was based!
I asked for the manager, explained the situation and of course, the charge was reversed.
We Americans can can be so stupid at times.
gatorcpa
Crazy. You'd think they'd charge based on how the check moved through the clearance system at the Fed.
There can be US Dollar accounts at banks in actual foreign countries too.