PNC Bank, National Association One PNC Plaza

Exhibit 10.18

PNC Bank, National Association

One PNC Plaza

000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx

Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxx 00000-0000

November 24, 0000

Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx Corporation

0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx

Xxxxxxxx, Xxxx 00000

Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx

Re: Extension of Facility Termination Date

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Reference is hereby made to that Receivables Purchase Agreement, dated as of November 30, 2000 (as amended, amended and restated, or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Agreement”), among each of the undersigned hereto. Terms used herein and not defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Agreement.

As you have requested pursuant to Section 1.10 of the Agreement, we hereby agree to extend the Facility Termination Date to November 23, 2005. Accordingly, clause (a) of the definition of “Facility Termination Date” as set forth in Exhibit I to the Agreement is hereby amended by replacing the date “November 24, 2004” with the date “November 23, 2005” therein.

If the foregoing is acceptable to you, please execute the enclosed copies of this letter and return them to the undersigned. Your execution of this letter shall constitute your representation and warranty that all necessary corporate action has been taken to extend the Facility Termination Date contemplated hereby. This letter may be executed in counterparts and shall be effective following our receipt of the fully executed counterpart hereto and once the Seventh Amendment to the Market Street Funding Corporation Liquidity Asset Purchase Agreement and the Third Amendment to the Liberty Street Funding Corp. Liquidity Asset Purchase Agreement become effective.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this letter as of the date first written above.

MARKET STREET FUNDING CORPORATION
as a Purchaser
By:		/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx
Name:		Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx
Title:		Vice President

PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as a Administrator and a Purchase Agent
By:		/s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Name:		Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title:		Vice President

LIBERTY STREET FUNDING CORP.,
as a Purchaser
By:		/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Name:		Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title:		Vice President

THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA,
as a Purchaser Agent
By:		/s/ Xxxxxx Las
Name:		Xxxxxx Las
Title:		Managing Director

FIFTH THIRD BANK,
as a Purchaser Agent and as a Purchaser
By:		/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Name:		Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title:		AVP

ACKNOWLEDGED as of the date
first written above:
WORTHINGTON RECEIVABLES CORPORATION
as Seller
By:		/s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Name:		Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title:		Treasurer