Originally Posted by
VA1379
The pound has been dropping against the dollar since mid-July. The current value of the pound on the forex market is about $1.83. So those 2 PPs will probably get about $366 at current FX value.
And it will probably drop further before the trip - but since I have no control over that, just have to deal.
qazw1The cheques are in $50 denomination. Be aware they have to process each one seperately. They have to key in each of the numbers. So allow a fair amount of time for checkout. Especially considering the size of your bill.
Iwould shoot myself. The cheque(s) I ordered come in $1K denominations, so hopefully that will not be too bad - surely it cannot take them long to process 21