From: Yellow 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Changing Money
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:50:07 -0000
Bytes: 2832

Ronald Raygun [no.spam@localhost.localdomain] said:
> Yellow wrote:
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> > Ronald Raygun [no.spam@localhost.localdomain] said:
> >> Yellow wrote:
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> >> > GeorgeE [george@theatre.com] said:
> >> >>=20
> >> >> I changed =A3400 on Friday in an Eastbourne Bureau de Change . The =
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> >> >> lady hardly uttered a word during the transaction.
> >> >> Earlier this year I twice changed larger amounts for Aussie Dollars=
 in
> >> >> M&S in Brighton and Eastbourne and they wanted my passport and
> >> >> address. George.
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> >> > So if you do not have a passport you are denied access to foreign
> >> > currency?
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> >> Well, if you don't have a passport, you don't need foreign currency.
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> > Not so and my mother for example buys dollars to send to my brother as
> > a present.
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> But she doesn't *need* to do it that way.  She could send him pounds and
> get *him* to fight whatever rules they might have over there!

Yes, in the same way that you do not *need* to buy your wife flowers and=20
instead could give her a fiver and tell her to go the the petrol station=20
to get them herself.

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> > But even if one could successfully argue that, is it reasonable grounds
> > to deny its purchase?
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> It isn't denied.  She could purchase from someone who doesn't require
> to see a passport, such as her bank.

That isn't answering the point made as you well know. :-)