Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gerd, Do not count on bank fees being lower. From the banks' point of view there is nothing special about 1 January 2002. All international transfers, all currency trading and all other financial market transactions have been done exclusively in Euro since 1 January 1999. The DM, FF etc. ceased to exist in an economic sense at that date. The 100 DM bill in your pocket became effectively a 51.28 EUR bill. The local currencies were kept for another 3 years to accomodate the logistics of the changeover of cash transactions and to allow ordinary people to get used to the Euro. Brenner does offer C.O.D. in Germany, and recently also here in Switzerland, and I think in Austria as well. I am not sure about other countries, though (they did not when I lived in Belgium until last year). Nathan Gerd Heuser wrote: > You're right. Hopefully the bank fees will lower next year when the Euro > will take place not only as common currency but also as common cash, thus > all national currencies will disappear. > But Brenner offers reimboursement (C.O.D.), too. > > Gerd - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html