they are a negotiable instrument with a paper trail.  I have traveled Europe for extended periods in the past and take $20-$30K, in traveler's checks and was never asked any questions during customs inspections.  The fact that they are serially numbered is how they can instantly replace them if they are lost or stolen.  Just keep the receipt with the serial numbers in a different place than the checks themselves.    

This is an easy one.  I have never been asked, but have my answers ready.  I have lived through 9/11, the northeast blackout of 2003, GFC, covid pandemic, etc.  I want to have enough cash on my person so that I can flag someone on the street and have them drive me home back to my family in the event that all public transit / airspace is closed.  And that might be $10k if you gotta convince someone to drive you from Los Angeles to Bar Harbor, Maine.

I thought they'd gone the way of the buggy whip. I travel abroad extensively and haven't used traveler's checks in about 25 years. Ever hear of a cash machine?

a large amount of cash in a foreign country.  I will take the checks and cash them on the day I need the cash for whatever I'm doing with it.  Cash on a credit card has higher fees (I hate paying interest or fees, so I pay all of my cards off monthly when the bill comes.  They don't make any interest on me, but they get whatever the percentage charge is from the vendors on my purchases, usually $15-20,000 a month.  I get the travelers checks for free from my bank due to my account balances.)  Cash machines have daily limits as I explained in another post recently.  It would take me a week to get $20,000 from two ATM cards, but with travelers checks, I can get $20,000 all on the same day.  It just depends on how much cash I need and when I need during my trip, but I have no problem using travelers checks, especially since my bank is not collecting any fees from me.

Old paper travelers checks and paper checks? Why? And who said anything about using a credit card at an ATM? I use debit cards, so only a tiny fee and no interest at all. Carrying large amounts of cash in many countries is an invitation to get robbed.

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of cash sticking out of your pocket in public is an invitation to get robbed.  That was the point of the Traveler's checks.  I can cash them out at an Amex office and then meet someone to get the cash off my hands five minutes later.  Then it's his or her problem, not mine.  It sounds like you've never had any experience with needing a large amount of cash in another country, so I assume your comments are from speculation?   Most ATM cards have a daily limit on how much cash you can get.  If you need more than that, I explained how travelers checks are next best option.  I've been in these kinds of situations.   It doesn't sound like you have.  

is buying it legally and cheaply, why would anyone need to carry large amounts of cash? Unless you're over-paying.
It sounds like you have.

pussy.  There are many instances where international business is done in cash. When I travel abroad, it's not FOR pussy, it's for business.  Pussy is just an incidental activity on these trips.  You need to expand your mind a little to see the bigger picture.  You asked about travelers checks and I answered.  No need to try to change the narrative to something else. I haven't overpaid for pussy since I was as Newbie to P4P.  

Don't you think the entire premise of the whole discussion was about traveling for P4P? If you don't, it seems pretty likely you're the only one. So I'd say you're the one trying "to change the narrative."

If you are traveling domestically and can fit it in with the daily withdrawal limits, get the cash locally. In the same vein, she should deposit it locally if you are traveling and she has a national bank with a local ATM. You don't need to worry about the TSA if you aren't carrying the cash on you when you fly. She doesn't need to worry about the TSA or getting robbed or purse-snatched as much if she can deposit it near your liaison hotel. I have escorted multiple ladies when out of town to her bank's ATM when both of us are out of town for safety. The $10,000 mandatory reporting applies only to international travel, but that doesn't mean that the TSA or its foreign equivalents can't act on suspicion of illegal transactions for smaller amounts on domestic or international flights.  

me still using traveler's checks.  It was a general question and you did not specify that you were ONLY referring to traveling abroad for a broad.  I also did not confine my own post before yours to traveling only for pussy.  Now you want to ADD specificity after the fact to your general question.  That's a really weak debating technique.  A man with your background should know better.  Here's the link to what you asked me in case you can't find it further up the thread . . . .

So far you are the only one not to get the subject of the thread.
What a shock.

you were referring ONLY to travelers checks used to pay for pussy, I would have said I don't use them for that and we could have saved a couple of exchanges.  Your question was about travelers checks, period, in foreign commerce, and I answered in the context of what I use them for.  If you want people to read your mind, you are in the wrong place for that.  

But, gosh, why would I (or anyone else on a fuck board) think we were talking about anything else but paying for pussy? That said, part of my initial reaction was simply shock that travelers checks even existed any more.
Congratulations!

Laws on sex in Thailand are pretty much the same as in the US, even if you wouldn't think so from the more open prostitution there in beer bars and hotel bars. Underage is definitely jail bait there as well as here, and they can prosecute you in the US for what you did in Thailand if it involves what we would call trafficking. Consenting adult prostitution is illegal in Thailand but tolerated with more or less the same regional variations as in the US but probably more open in Thailand on average.  

so he knows he doesn't have to bring travelers checks.

how much you can get on your card at an ATM, tell Nicky, so he'll know to bring travelers checks in addition to his ATM card.   I thought this horse was dead, but he still wants to beat it.  

I had some AMEX Travelers Checks in my sock drawer for 20 years, went to cash them at my local bank, got the speech about 'counterfeit Printers are so good now days' that they had to wait until they cleared. So yes, gone the way of Dial-Up-Modems, LOL

So far as I know, the more binding limit is set by your US (or wherever) bank issuing the debit card and the foreign bank is fine with that.  My daily limit in Thailand the last time I was there was the baht equivalent of $1K, exactly the same as in the US. Maybe it differs between banks, but that has been my experience in every country. You should notify you bank before you leave that you will be abroad and where, so they don't block your card for identity theft suspicions.  

I told her there was nothing wrong with it - I had printed it out fresh that morning!

The lady at the Thai hotel didn't say that it made sense (in fact, she said it didn't), but she said that the hotel had trouble depositing money in the bank if the bills weren't pristine, and she got grief from her managers if she accepted them.  

I have it on good authority(*) that counterfeiters run their crisp new bills through crumpling / washing / drying / dirtying cycles to make it appear used and more real (at least to eyes in the US).

Has anyone carried couple of cartridges of 420 through the airport? We are not talking about the old school rolled up joint, but rather cartridges that go in 510 Pen.  

Britney Griner is still in prison in Putin's Russia so far as I know  on vape CBD cartridge charges. Do you Thin DeSantis - the acolyte of the acolyte of Putin would be much better.  

I think you are fear mongering a little bit..  Brittney Griner is an American who was playing in a country that is our adversary. On top of that she is a Black person who is Lesbian playing  in a country that is mostly white  with a lot of hatred towards minorities, and where being LGBTQ is a huge hurdle to overcome.  

Years ago, I set up a simple, fee-free, minimal balance account at one of the nationwide banks.  I transfer money into the account before my trip, and withdraw it at my destination.  I have never been to a destination that did not have branches of that bank.  Yes, there is a paper trail, but the amounts I deposit and withdraw at any one time are not sufficient to draw anyone's attention.