3/24/2010

Tom

Thanks for your simple, yet direct analysis of my inquiry to you about
potentially sending a remittance directly to Surigao del Sur, to a
recipient yet unknown. But such a potential recipient "might" be
related to our mutual, extended Peace Corps family.

While you live in South Dakota, I appreciate the amount of "word of

mouth" necessary to generate an idea of how the ensure the maximum
amoout of your money gets to the intended recipients and not to the
"money transferring intermediary."

Fortunately, as you and Lita experienced in your recent all too brief
trip here to Las Vegas, I have the advantage of merely walking over to
the local Seafood City branch and or Goldiocks restaurant to relive my
filipino experiences on a daily basis AND to get the type of answer
that reflects all of your hard work and analysis.

Hopefully, you have shared with your daughter and my god-daughter

Stephanie "some" of our conversations together that I had the good
fortune to have had when you and Lita were here in Las Vegas. It is
nice to experience LIVING filipino "history in the making" on an
everyday basis here Las Vegas, while steading working with an
apparently very "simple" job here with UPS.

Best Regards,

Rick

P S. I forwarded to you another email regarding a book that involves

real U.S. history that confirms my current mailing address. If you
were to look up the name of the book's author, Sam Passo, and to
simply google Sam's name, then you would KNOW where my family is
simply like your family. ... and the pun is intended, of course.

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On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:56 AM, <Tom.Magedanz@state.sd.us> wrote:

> Rick,
>
> I just got your voicemail. (Being over 60 and all, I often have my cell
> phone turned off, but I saw it this morning.) Sorry I haven’t contacted you
> earlier. Lita tried to send you a card over the holidays, but we do not have
> a complete mailing address for you and it came back. Could you send me your
> mailing address?
>
> Remittances: We rarely do this, but we did send money last October to Lita’s
> cousin in Manila (Marikina) – it was actually his house that flooded. In the
> past when we have sent money we sent it to him and he passed it on to other
> relatives, but this time it was actually for him (8 feet of water in his
> house).
>
> We used RCBC Remittance (Rizal Commercial Banking Corp) in LA because Lita’s
> cousin has an account with RCBC in Marikina. RCBC has several offices in the
> US (probably in LV too – Google them). Several different types of service
> (door-to-door cash; pesos; dollars; deposit in existing peso account, etc.)
> also cheaper in MetroManila than the provinces. We just sent them a check
> and had them deposit into his peso account (he gave us the account number);
> the fee was $7 or thereabouts. The fee is higher for some of the other
> services, but nothing higher than $22 according to the form on their
> internet site. I’m not sure how to go about sending money to Surigao Sur if
> you don’t have a specific person or bank account in mind, but check out
> their web site and call them, or check with some of the other remittance
> services there in Las Vegas.
>
> We are fine. Long winter, but finally getting some warmer weather. Stephanie
> and Will will come home in July and probably move to Duluth, MN for some
> reason (he’s applied to grad school there in freshwater biology – some major
> freshwater research facilities there with EPA and the Univ of Minnesota
> because of Lake Superior) – and they like it in Duluth. Steph has always
> been fascinated with the Philippines because she was born there – we are
> toying with the idea of meeting them in Manila when they COS in July, but
> not sure yet. It would be good for me to keep my checkbook closed for a
> while, but we may try to do it if it works out with Steph and Will. (We did
> not go to Philippines last year on the Cambodia/VN trip because Mindanao is
> off-limits for PCVs, including visiting PCVs, but OK after COS).
>
> Charlie will go back to Prague next month for another baseball season. He
> also managed to find a girlfriend there (a Czech-mate) – she visited us in
> January and is very nice, so I’m not sure what will happen with that.
>
> Our legislature is struggling with the budget and will be back in next week.
>
> Good to hear from you, and have a good day.
>
> Tom

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