AND if you belong to AAA they will provide you with both "foreign" cash and travelers checks in the foreign currency. FREE. ( we just picked up Canadian Travelers checks, and British T/C's and British pounds from the local AAA office in greater Baltimore. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wes Boyd" <boydwe_at_dmci.net> To: "malisle" <malisle_at_island.net> Cc: "PaddleWise" <PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 1:02 PM Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Run for the border > At 06:22 AM 6/1/00 -0700, malisle wrote: > > > > >You'd better check to see if it's all the sales tax that can be refunded > or just > >the GST, i.e., the federal tax. I believe it's this 7% federal portion > that is > >refundable, but I could be wrong. > > Another thing I discovered this morning is fees for conversion between US > and Canadian funds -- one local bank charges 20%!!! (Needless to say, I did > not avail myself of their services . . .) A credit card company I just got > checking with charges 1%. That's do-able, I guess . . . beats twenty percent. > > -- Wes > > *************************************************************************** > PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not > to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission > Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net > Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net > Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ > *************************************************************************** > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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