I have paid some pounds into my credit Suisse bank before and they charged me a 1% handling fee for just taking the money and crediting my sterling account. Is that normal practise and any way to pay cash without a levy being raised

I have a few thousand dollars at home from travelling. Can I pay them at the counter into my revolut account without any handling fee or am I better just accepting the banks stupid fx rates and changing them to chf

This is hard paper cash not bank transfers

Revolut. Not only do the banks charge fees the exchange rates are not as good as Revolut or TransferWise. Avoid Revolut on the weekends though, better rates during the week.

Doesn´t work with cash though. But I highly recommend Revolut as well

Thanks but how do I get hard cash in my hands onto revolout?

Is there a post office counter that you can walk into and just pay into an account with no charges ?

No, foreign cash is a pain in the arse, you are paying for a service that is not without risk for the provider.

There is no where in Switzerland where you can pay foreign cash in without charges.

It's the same for getting foreign currency out of a foreign currency account in CH

Thanks all - Looks like i will have to accept the banks fx rates as it will be cheaper then cash handling fee and revolut transfer

I used transferwise to make the transfer. Small admin fee for transferwise and excellent FX conversion rate

Does not help much if you have cash on your hands

Yes it's normal practice. I heard Post Finance might not charge a fee but can't be sure.


You could wait until the SNB interferes more with the exchange rate then you might save yourself 1%.


Or sell your dollars to an American moving back home.

HI everyone ,

i am getting marry in Switzerland in 2021
still waiting my vaccnine in Asia ..

May i know how much can i bring into my flight ( any maximum amount) for Zurich custom.

i have done research in ch.ch and they seems there isn't any maximum amount


Does anyone knows that i need to declare it?

pls advise

cheers
amy

When I googled "max amount of cash to bring to Switzerland" this link came up first and explains it all:

https://www.ezv.admin.ch/ezv/en/home...ecurities.html

In essence, you need to declare excess of 10'000 CHF.

admin.ch

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=br...to+switzerland

No limit but they might question you if it's more than 10,000CHF. I don't know where you are but you might want to look into changing the money into Swiss Francs before you arrive with something like Revolut. If you're coming from Singapore then I think Revolut exists there.

I’ll never understand why people want to travel with a heap of cash??

To buy a car?

Tom

And in fact, you don't.

You are right. You don't have to declare it - if you are found with more than 10k CHF and there is suspicion on origin, then it maybe confiscated.

Thank you

Not true - I regularly pay USD cash into my UBS account (also in USD).

Then, you transfer from UBS (USD) to CurrencyFair, swap to whatever currency you want, and transfer wherever you want