cheque payable to somebody in Ireland

[Pursuivant]

Wherefore it has been deemed by the Finnish Banking Association, herewith antiquated means of commodity shall retain to their original legisation:

Law on checques 1809 :
Checques to foreign parts not serviced by the normal carriage, shall portray pigeons for swit transfers.

[llewellyn]

Wherefore it has been deemed by the Finnish Banking Association, herewith antiquated means of commodity shall retain to their original legisation:

Law on checques 1809 :
Checques to foreign parts not serviced by the normal carriage, shall portray pigeons for swit transfers.

Yeah, such idiotic things. I still remember coming back from 1,5 years of working in Dublin back in 2000 and they then sent me afterwards my pension money. And I had left them a note that whatever you do, don't send a check. And of course they sent a check which I took to my local branch in the countryside of Finland - they were very puzzled, then made a couple of calls and explained that they will need to send it to their hq in Helsinki which will then send it back to Dublin for cashing by their local bank associate which will then transfer the money to Helsinki where it would be paid to my account... But the overall cost then I think was only about 150 marks or thereabouts.

[ronnie24]

What government department/body are you dealing with?

I'm in Denmark and have had no problem with doing bank transfers. They provided me the IBAN and BIC info.