Over the years I've needed to send small amount of Francs/Euros to France for various reasons, mostly deposits for rent and things like that. The amounts range from, say, 10 to 200 Euros.
Once upon a time it was easy and relatively cheap using Eurocheques (they're nothing to do with Euros) but they were phased out a couple of years ago.
Now the alternatives seem to be:- Send the cash, if just five or ten Euros I take the risk, for more I send it registered. Works OK but it's a bit of a hassle and it does cost a bit (if registered).
Send travellers cheques, reasonably secure and not too expensive but an absolute pain in the backside if for any reason the cheques aren't cashed. Travellers cheques are *very* difficult to cash oneself if they have been made out to someone else even if they were your cheques originally.
A bank transfer of some sort, I've yet to find one I can do electronically and they all cost ten pounds or more.
Has anyone any better ideas? What I'd really like is to open a bank account in France so I can write cheques in Euros from a French bank but that seems pretty difficult too. (I know about CA's Britline, last time I looked at that it was pretty expensive).