Mr Good Provider. Grunt.

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Finally convinced redcountess that thrashing herself to exhaustion working thirty hours a week at T*l*t*ch is actually a BAD idea with all the shit she has to get organised, and that her enormous Australian wage is actually about 2p. (Well, £450 a month after tax. That is, a quarter of my wage after tax.)

So, I'm yet again after good ways to get money to Australia that aren't MoneyGrams. Specifics if possible - things you've actually done, what it cost and whether the exchange rate was ruinous.

Update: Yeah, banks, including mine, apparently do just the thing I need. Will enquire forthwith.

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[dcarson.livejournal.com]

Australian banks will accept foreign cheques, and the fee isn't very much when you think of it in pounds. :-) But it's soooo daaamn slooooow... I got a cheque in pounds from the IR after leaving the UK.. it took about six weeks to be cleared and into my bank account.

When I was in the UK and wanted to smuggle money back to Australia I just went to the bank and got them to draw a cheque in $A.. I can't remember what it cost, though, and once you've done that, and posted it, and had it cleared into the Australian bank, well over a week has gone by..

Maybe you could each set up a Paypal account and move money through that? ("No! Paypal sucks (http://www.paypalsucks.com/)", screams the chorus)