It is not illegal to send money through the mail internationally to your friends and family. You should never send cash through the mail.
It is not legal to send cash via Fedex.
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No, it is not legal to mail or ship cash.
No. It's just risky. How do you feel about the post office? guess what they just put into effect a hiring ban and tried to get current employees to retire early so this may be the best time to send cash through the mail (at least from a philanthropic point of view anyhow)
If you send a check in the mail as payment, you have a paper trail that shows that you paid the amount and that the entity cashed it at the bank. If your mail is stolen, cash is easily converted to what a thief would want and does not leave a trail of behavior. A mailed check requires more steps required to change it into cash that may cause him to be apprehended.
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No
Send a money order. You can get them at Albertsons, Osco, Buttrey, and most other local grocery stores at the courtesy counter
One way to make fast cash without doing something illegal is to have a yard sale.
There does not appear to be any federal law for or against mailing currency. There is an oft-repeated myth that mailing cash is illegal. It is illegal to mail cash to certain places (jails and prisons, for example). Certain countries under embargo (Cuba) may be subject to laws barring the mailing of cash, but these laws are routinely violated and no one is ever charged with any offense. Since 2009, the law permits sending cash to family members in Cuba. The postal service 'dead letter office' sometimes receives wrongly addressed parcels filled with cash. They recently returned $12,000 to the sender of a package with no address label on the outside.
Because it keeps it out of circulation...