How can i send birthday gift money from UK to New Zealand safely without them knowing in advance?
I think that the best way without asking for the bank account number would be a Western Union money transfer. You go to any Western Union office near you (sometimes you have them in post offices) and order the money transfer. You can send it in their local currency. When it’s your friend’s birthday, you just have to give them a reference number and with that, they can collect the money from any Western Union office near them. They can’t refuse it really because you have already sent it and it saves you from asking for an account number There are Western Union offices pretty much everywhere too! Don’t send a cheque as it will cost a fortune to do this through the banking system as they will charge at source and at the other end and you may just find that they can’t cash it. There are also vouchers you can send for internet based services such as itunes or lastminute.com. This is sometimes a good way of giving a present to someone in another country.
