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Just got in the mail today a letter with the sender address as: Polizei, Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Just as I thought, it was a speeding ticket written by the police in Aachen. The letter is in French, which I can understand. They cited me for driving 62 km/hr in a zone of 50 km/hr. The fine is 25 euros. They included a photo, and it showed me as the driver.
Darn! I am going to pay this, but wonder how to go about it. The letter shows the IBAN/BIC numbers to do the money transfer.
On the Web, people said that their US bank charged as much as US$30 to do the transfer. I wonder if there's another cheaper way like using Paypal, or Western Union.
By the way, people also said that their car rental company also levied a charge of as much as US$30 for the trouble of complying with the police in providing owner's identity.
I wonder how many more of these tickets I will be getting.
Just as I thought, it was a speeding ticket written by the police in Aachen. The letter is in French, which I can understand. They cited me for driving 62 km/hr in a zone of 50 km/hr. The fine is 25 euros. They included a photo, and it showed me as the driver.
Darn! I am going to pay this, but wonder how to go about it. The letter shows the IBAN/BIC numbers to do the money transfer.
On the Web, people said that their US bank charged as much as US$30 to do the transfer. I wonder if there's another cheaper way like using Paypal, or Western Union.
By the way, people also said that their car rental company also levied a charge of as much as US$30 for the trouble of complying with the police in providing owner's identity.
I wonder how many more of these tickets I will be getting.