Originally Posted by
UAPremExecflyer
Posting a link to this story is complete bollocks. It is NOT relevant.... Many countries tell you to declare the equivalent of US$10,000 and it is perfectly legal to do so...
I assume everyone here that travels for work, or has ever lived internationally, knows this. Regardless of YOUR definition of what constitutes "a large amount of cash"(or mine for that matter), a person may be uncomfortable with carrying what THEY feel is an hard-to-replace amount of currency.
Canada's CBC (Communist Broadcasting Corporation) enjoys selling a different story and it has a lot of us looking South with trepidation; my mother, and many of her compatriots, will not travel with cash to the US anymore - but she still doesn't take traveler's cheques.
FYI, this is news that people outside the US are hearing:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/america...oney-1.2760736
(please take note of the $2500 taken from a college student)