From: "Jane Tweedynn" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Best High Street place for get Euros
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 13:24:11 +0100


> > > > I took advice off this group and went to the post office for my
> currency
> > > > this year.  You can order it and pick it up on the day you want.
Did
> a
> > > > little research on the net and they were offering the best exchange
> rate
> > > > without commission.
> > > >
> > >
> > > That was poor advice then, IME M&S was better than the PO. It may
charge
> > > commission but thats irrelevant, the only thing that matters is how
much
> > you
> > > end up with at the end.
> > >
> > > -- 


I took offence at your arrogant comment that it was poor advice to go to the
post office for my currency, when clearly it wasn't.

The OP asked for the best place to buy currency on the high street.  I
suggested the Post Office as an alternative to the rip off travel agents.
Since it is impossible to determine what is best for each poster, should we
offer suggestions or keep quiet?


> > >You could of course go and buy from the cheapest place when you happen
to be
> > >in the location to avoid extra costs, but that would involve planning
in
> > >advance, something you apparently (from your reply) don't do. Either
that or
> > >all your transactions have to occur starting from your place of work?

Yet again you assume wrong, since booking the holiday I have not been
anywhere near your beloved M&S which offers foreign currency, so my planning
was quite correct.