Post Office 'In Branch' Rates Rip Off

tom0407

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Why would anyone be sympathetic towards someone that can read and yet missed the blindingly obvious disclaimer?

It's quite simple really... I was in the branch, not online. If I had been online I would have compared deals, seen the disclaimer and gone somewhere else for my currency. I think you are missing the whole point of this forum.

Nevermind, forget I mentioned it, and remember, next time you book a holiday get your currency from the post office in branch. :money:

dzug1

tom0407 wrote: »

It's quite simple really... I was in the branch, not online. If I had been online I would have compared deals, seen the disclaimer and gone somewhere else for my currency. I think you are missing the whole point of this forum.

Nevermind, forget I mentioned it, and remember, next time you book a holiday get your currency from the post office in branch. :money:

And that somewhere else on the average High Street will only have been marginally better if at all.

And yes I might well get my currency from the Post Office if it's 15 miles each way to get a trivially better rate at M&S.

PolishBigSpender

tom0407 wrote: »

It's quite simple really... I was in the branch, not online. If I had been online I would have compared deals, seen the disclaimer and gone somewhere else for my currency. I think you are missing the whole point of this forum.

Nevermind, forget I mentioned it, and remember, next time you book a holiday get your currency from the post office in branch. :money:

If you were in the branch, why are you complaining about the worse rate? The current rates are clearly displayed in every Post Office that does forex - or at least, they were when I was last in the UK. So it's not a 'scam', it's not a 'ripoff' - you got the published rate and that's that.

The fact that the interbank rate might be 5% better means absolutely nothing to personal customers. It might be significant if you ran an forex exchange business - but it's really insigificant for ordinary private individuals.

Get your currency in branch and get a worse rate? No thank you.