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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: RE: ID (one solution)
Message-ID: <4315@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 29-Aug-84 11:38:35 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 29 11:38:35 1984
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Re using travellers' checks instead of cash or personal checks:

About the only places I have been able to use travellers' checks without
giving just the same sort of ID you'd need for a personal check (drivers
license, credit card, whatever) have been restaurants in tourist-catering
areas (like San Francisco). Most other places I've cashed them, including
some restaurants, have asked for ID. (I once even encountered a gas station
that WOULDN'T take travellers' checks at all! -- a local discount independent
small chain.)

Maybe other people have traded with more accomodating or obliging businesses;
my experience is with the ordinary run-of-the-mill places like Walgreen's
drugstores, etc.

Will