Date:         Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:29:51 -0800
Reply-To:     Jim Thompson <jim@KARMANNGHIA.COM>
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From:         Jim Thompson <jim@KARMANNGHIA.COM>
Subject:      Re: What would you do?
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Yep, I've been to Perkiowhowhatsit.....A thriving megalopolis of activity.
It is Friday, y'know......

Jim Thompson
84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
oldvolkshome@earthlink.net
jim@karmannghia.com
http://www.oldvolkshome.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Demarest" <tim.demarest@POBOX.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: What would you do?


> Well Ron, I guess Barb just doesn't work at a postal window in a bustling
> cosmopolitan international trading hub like Perkiomenville, PA.
>
> (For those who missed the Friday content, just pull out your US road atlas
> and try to find Perkiomenville, PA... go on, I dare ya! :-).
>
> Tim
>
> At 11:11 AM 2/11/2005 -0500, The Bus Depot wrote:
> > > Have to differ with you Ron- I work for the US Postal Service
> > > as a window clerk, and I've never worked in an office that
> > > would cash a foreign money order, postal or other. I'm afraid
> > > if someone came in with one, I would send them to the bank.
> >
> >
> >And I would argue with you. :-)  See U.S. postal regulations, section
371.5,
> >at http://pe.usps.gov/text/Imm/immc3.html#S?oUq2f4wats.  The list of
> >countries the U.S. post office will cash US$ postal money orders from is
not
> >huge, and it's kind of an odd mix (mostly small countries besides Japan
and
> >Canada; probably because most other countries don't sell US$ postal money
> >orders), but it is indeed an official U.S.P.S. service.  Here's the list:
> >
> >Albania
> >Anguilla
> >Antigua and Barbuda
> >Bahamas
> >Belize
> >British Virgin Islands
> >Canada
> >El Salvador ($500 max.)
> >Grenada
> >Guyana ($500 max.)
> >Japan
> >Montserrat
> >Peru
> >St. Christopher (St. Kitts) and Nevis
> >St. Lucia
> >St. Vincent and the Grenadines
> >Trinidad and Tobago
> >
> >Incidentally, the U.S. post office can also sell you an international
money
> >order that is payable in those countries (plus about a dozen others).
> >
> >- Ron Salmon
> >   The Bus Depot, Inc.
> >   www.busdepot.com
> >   (215)  234-VWVW
> >
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