Cashing of UK cheques in Germany

LOL, I know that, but I never hear them referred to as such, and therefore wanted to know if there was a difference between hand written ones, and ones like the one I have that was issued by the inland revenue.

But I guess a cheque is a cheque. Just need to know if I can cash it at postbank now.

have no pound sign on my keyboard, so sterling = pounds sterling / quids

Alt+0163 = £.

on a mac

lol, Just to clarify, I know that Sterling means UK pounds, but someone had mentioned something about a sterling cheque, and seeing as I had never heard this term before, I was just asking to clarify the situation.

lol, but thanks for the currency lesson.

Why not just mail it to the bank direct? No need to trouble your brother with doing it.

Living near Frankfurt airport, a GBP cheque that I send to my bank's HQ in London shows in my online account two days later . Post it Monday morning, in my account Wednesday morning - brilliant .

The other thing in respect of tax refunds is that, of course, HMRC usually offers to pay the money to a "nominee" and this can simply be your UK bank account. So you could ask them to do that - even easier assuming you don't need it locally immediately in Eur of course .

But is this still possible now that I have the cheque? Because if so, I'll just give them a call on Monday.

Yes, sorry, my reply is ambiguous.

In general, you can ask HMRC to pay to your bank. It was really just a point to note.

This time, now you have your cheque, go on with paying it in to your bank. Next time, it may be an option for you and / or easier to ask HMRC to pay your UK bank.

Yep, just phoned them up, they said I would need to send the cheque back to them first. So I might as well send it to my brother. But i like the sound of sending it to my bank direct. What would I need to do, and what info would I need to include. I'm with Braclays, had any experience with them.

Just a standard letter, please credit this cheque to my account 12345 blah de blah.
Send it registered.

Very cool, thanks very much

definately send it by Einschreiben. I have had a lot of bad experiences sending stuff to english banks. I now get pretty much everything signed for.

Well, I stand corrected; I've just noticed that the cheques I receive from a particular (British) company have my (German) address on them. I always pay them into my British bank account and have never had any problems.

Just banked in my UK cheque into Dresdner Bank, was really expecting some mess up, but its been 5 days and the money is in my account and they charged me 10 Euros which i think is a fair amount. Not that bad after all.