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As a previous attempt to locate a non-Australia Post, non-newsagency Western Union agent was hard fought, it was thrown to checking on the actual addresses. One popping up with a mark of reasonable proximity was the American Express Exchange on George and Hunter streets. This cross street fact was had only after the factored transaction and sighted on the way coming back from crossing the road looking for a number missing from the streets.
With the carbon paper copy of the Send Money form well dudded into a blank slate it should have been some sort of warning sign, an indication, to just up and run out of the office, stationed by two people, a trainee and her over-the-shoulder-breathing manager.
There were no other people in the queue and finding a way from one side of the metal barrier to the other wasn't made any easier by the lack of an arrow signing direction.
Taking over ten minutes at the teller (two at the counter filling in the form), the ordeal was a shocking blow to the budget, a twenty dollar ($AUD20) "processing fee" to send a mere six dollars ($AUD8.75) in US currency leaving the folded notes broken, empty and facing the need to scrounge for enough notes to exist another week.
Fair warning was given though, "There's a processing fee involved for sending, are you sure about this?"
Wednesday, 29 September 2004 - 04:10
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