currency exchange woes

[Mike Arman]

Currency exchange woes . . . it is MUCH easier to change a lot of currency
X to currency Y - that's what I do. Contact me off-list if you have more
than $15,000 of anything to convert to anything else.

For really small amounts, you might try this - the Post Office has
something known as an International Reply Coupon. Postal rates are pretty
similar throughout the world, courtesy of the International Postal Union.
IRCs are good anywhere on the planet.

Ask your guy in Germany if he would accept equivalent value in postage -
everyone uses the mail - so you could buy $10 worth of IRCs here, mail them
to him, and he'd have EUR 12 in postage in his hand for the next mail he
sends out. Not sure if these IRCS can be used domestically, but I do think
they can be cashed . . .



Best Regards,

Mike Arman