Sending money back to the Philippines

[Terpe]

Hello Sir Terpe,
I wish I am also having HUGE sum
I am not doing it monthly just whenever theres a chance and if theres upcoming celebrations in the family. I am quite chuff today that my hard-earned money has a good rate, and that will spreeeaadd a little joy to the family. Cheers

Well done to you and yours. That's a great reason.

Most of the money we send is to support education for our family students. The rest is in preparation for our relocation from UK to Philippines.

[Michael Parnham]

Hello Everyone, I use money gram in sending money to the Philippines via post office, now I just had a look and it says you can send online too. Just thinking that will save me going to the town, I would like to ask does any one here in the forum use or tried money gram online?
I am not sure if it's safe or not.
Thank you.
Han

Wish I could help Han, but I've never heard of moneygram!

[Michael Parnham]

Han, why don't you use internet banking?

[SimonH]

We use Metro Remittance Bank in London.

http://www.metrorem.co.uk/

I transfer funds on-line to their account then ring them to let them know, money then gets transferred to the Philippines by the next working day. From memory it costs £7 to send, but we get the official exchange rate, so just over PHP 69 as of this morning.

[grahamw48]

Wish I could help Han, but I've never heard of moneygram!

I've been using Moneygramme for years (similar to Western Union).

It's a good way of sending money to Filipinos who have no bank account. They can just collect the cash from their nearest agent, and there are thousands of them over there.

The money is available after about 10 minutes. The recipient just needs to take the correct ID, plus the reference number that you have given them, to collect.

I can do this at my local post office. £100 will cost about £9 to send. Not cheap, but good for emergencies.

[fred]

It's a good way of sending money to Filipinos who have no bank account.

As I said before on another thread..Our construction crew are from Manila and every Friday we have to send their wives the wages..
As you say..They dont have bank accounts and even here its a real nightmare sending them cash..
About the quickest and cheapest way is via SMART PADALA.. There is 4 or 5 offices/agents here that send the cash via a mobile phone..
Not sure if this service is possible from the UK??

[fred]

Well..Just had a look and it seems they do..

http://www1.smart.com.ph/internation...ile-remittance

[grahamw48]

Yes, I'd seen that (Smart) method Fred....just I'm a person of habit I suppose.

Maybe I'll look into that for another occasion, and could indeed be useful for others on here.

[Terpe]

Thanks for that link Fred
I've passed on to my wife and she seemed very interested to try.

[SimonH]

69.5 now

[Ako Si Jamie]

Over 70 for November please