Help! How to do fast international money orders?

[eridani]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1842305,00.html

Residents in a small town in Lower Saxony are frantically trying to raise €3.4m (more than £2m) to buy an empty hotel before it is taken over by a rightwing extremist organisation that reportedly plans to use it as a neo-Nazi rallying point.

The ultra-right group expected to purchase the hotel in the next few days is led by Jürgen Rieger, a Hamburg lawyer and well-known neo-Nazi. Mr Rieger is infamous in Germany for defending prominent Holocaust deniers and leading an annual rally in Bavaria in honour of Rudolf Hess, one of Hitler's top deputies.

He is purchasing the hotel on behalf of his London-registered company, the Wilhelm Tietjen Foundation for Fertilisation Ltd. The firm is named after a former Nazi who made millions in the stock market and died four years ago. Mr Rieger is known to be a strong proponent of creating a master race, and also heads a group called the Germanic Faith Community for Life Creation.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,430912,00.html


http://www.fuer-delmenhorst.de/
Does anybody know how to do fast international money orders? They don’t seem to have a credit card payment method.

[NMDemDist2]

1. Western Union? n/t

[eridani]

2. Are they open weekends? n/t

[NMDemDist2]

3. i think so, call em and good luck! n/t

[malaise]

4. Yep and they're in most

supermarkets.

[MissWaverly]

5. you can probably Western Union international on-line

see if you can google for it.

[sgxnk]

6. i'd use

neteller.

way better

[eridani]

7. Thanks very much!

If you can, please help out these townspeople.

[Selatius]

8. I wish fighting the fascists in America was so simple

Buying a hotel to keep it out of their hands--we'd be able to win those battles, but these fascists here aren't in hotels. They're in the White House and Congress.

[eridani]

9. Good point. My reason for publicizing this--

--is that we passed through on a bike tour in 1996, and I felt a connection immediately.

[TreasonousBastard]

10. Western Union will work, assuming...

they know the money is coming and can pick it up. I've sent money WU and it's available almost immediately, even over the weekend-- as long as a receiving location is open. When I've used it, it's been cash to people I know so I don't know how it works with organizations.

If you can get their bank routing information, a transfer direct from your bank to theirs will also work. They probably won't see the money until Monday, but that should be OK since nothing's going to happen over the weekend.

Either way will cost a few bucks, with the bank transfer probably a little more expensive. Different WU locations have different charges, I've noticed. Ones in immigrant areas with a lot of international transfers are occasionally cheaper.