John W. wrote:
> CL wrote:
> 
>>Why didn't you just run over to the local branch of the Bank of Austria
>>(Osterreicherbank?) and cash them in there?  There used to be one around
>>... maybe in Hibiya or Nihonbashi.  If they couldn't do the exchange
>>they had a local bank they could instruct.  They helped me get the
>>schillings I needed to pay a very strange person in some remote mountain
>>village for parts for a Puch 250 "Twingle" I helped one of the locals
>>restore.
>>
>>Usually if the local currency exchange desk ladies start looking at you
>>like you're naked, you're better off grabbing the cash and finding the
>>local office of a bank from the country where the money came from.  They
>>usually have a person there who knows how to fix those kinds of
>>problems.
> 
> But weren't you bitching about having to do this very thing in another
> post in this thread?

Three blocks vs. 60 miles.  Do the math.

Besides, the number of times a Japanese bank has screwed up a currency 
exchange is almost zero in comparison to the complete incompetence of US 
banks.  Hell, the Arab woman working in the kiosk next to the entrance 
of the Marble Arch tube station, who speaks no English, does a better 
job than any clerk I've encountered at a currency exchange in a US bank.

CL