ShelliePO Top Contributor & Patron
Joined: 18 Feb 2009
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 8:14 pm
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Has anyone explored using Western Union to wire money? Not sure if the archives would accept that, or whether Western Union can wire money directly to a bank.......... I'm curious to know if it is possible....
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 3:27 pm
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I wanted to touch on several points here, Ola had mentioned Charter One bank in Illinois. I have one of my accounts there, nationally they are know as Citizen's Bank and internationally as Bank of Scotland. The international connection may be the key here. PNC had acquired a major bank chain in the Illinois Polish Community, one of their reps may be able to assist in how to avoid excessive fees. Another possibility is "Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union" with a branch in Chicago and in Norridge IL. They may have a way of sending funds to Poland and other central european countries that others don't (or won't)
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 5:53 pm
Post subject: Sending Money to Poland
All correspondence to Polish archives can be in English but the reply will be in Polish. If their email looks garbled it is because CHARACTER ENCODING in your email program needs to be set on Unicode (UTF- . Do not ever expect the archives to respond in English. why should they? They're Polish! If someone wrote to you in Swahili, would you write back in that language?
Most U.S. banks do charge a high fee to wire transfer money to Poland. There are a couple of options:
US Money Express http://www.usmoneyexpress.com/
and Xoom.com http://www.usmoneyexpress.com/ charge lower fees than U.S. banks.
Western Union will not work for Polish archives and in fact will only work if the recipient lives in a big city.
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 7:45 pm
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Debbie, good to see you're on here too. I did get a chance to ask today at PNC, not a good option. Edyta did tell me that it's more convenient to use 3rd party sources such as found in most Polish markets, PKO was the old way. I see many small stores advertising send money to various latin-american countries, so I'll have to keep my eyes open next time down Belmont Ave.
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