There is reciprocity between Canadian and US Postal Services, so you can say
get a Canadian postal money order in US funds that can be cashed at the US Post
Office by the recipient, (though I think that the US person must send US funds
via US money order to the Canadian).
Though I doubt there is the same connection via Royal Mail to US Postal
Service, it may be worth asking. Money orders purchased via the Postal Service
typically have a fee of 1 USD (last I asked) and that is cheaper than most bank
fees. The Postal Service will cash them for you too with ID if they have in
the drawer enough to cover, if it is a large amount. You can go online and
google "currency conversion" for the market value of the day and perhaps figure
the value and then pay additional to her as she must convert the MO to USD, or
see if Royal will allow you to send USD...
Otherwise, perhaps you can do a trade. If you have the value, perhaps someone
wants something in your country, and they can order and ship to you what you
want in the US, and you do the same for them. I have done that via
Scandinavian countries when things there are half price or less than what
supply and demand asks for the same product in the USA. I did that once for a
friend in London, as I wanted a needle size that is hard to find here, and she
wanted Kool-Aid to try dyeing yarn with her kids, etc. and we figured the
approximate shipping and each was content! <smile>
HTH,
Susan Reishus
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