Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:59:50 -0600
Reply-To: Jeff Palmer <icecoldvw@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Jeff Palmer <icecoldvw@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: What would you do? Money Orders and other Tall Tales
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Barb you're killing me!! Bad!
I worked in Customer Service for Canada Post for 3 years (a thankless job)
and I would hear this every so often. Post Offices refusing Postal Money
Orders. Sacrilege!! Incidentally I still use Postal Money Orders to buy
goods from people on this list who don't accept Paypal or out of country
lists. Postal Money Orders are nice, as they are cheaper than bank money
orders and convenient as you can buy them from Canada in Canadian, US or
British currency. And Post Offices here have better hours than banks (the
one by my house is in a 7-11 and I'm always looking for an excuse to get a
Slurpee). They're meant to be cashed at Post Offices, not banks (Barb!!!)
as many banks refuse them or in Steve's case are charging a fee. That's the
first I heard of that one. With Canadian Postal Money Orders anyway, you
can call a 1800 number for instant verification.
The only downside as far as I can tell is that if they go missing, they
can't instantly be cancelled or replaced. You still have to wait however
many weeks. Unless things have improved in the last few years.
Jeff
Reformed Postal Clerk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barb Cotton" <cottonscrafts@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: What would you do?
> OK OK I give! Let me clarify that- I have worked at 3 different post
offices as a window clerk over the last 15 years, and I have never sold an
international money order (not ALL offices do) and have never cashed an
international money order. I was not aware that the post office would cash
them, and since I have never gotten any information about cashing them from
anyone in authority, I would still send you to the bank. : )
> Barb
>
> "Steve@EuroCampers.com" <Steve@EUROCAMPERS.COM> wrote:
> on 2/11/05 10:11 AM, The Bus Depot at vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM 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:
>
> I cashed an international postal money order this morning at the post
office
> here in DeSoto MO. It was for about a hundred bucks and from Canada.
>
> Yes, very few postal employees know about this and I had to educate the
> local office the first time I received one.
>
>
> -- Steve Lashley
> SKL Enterprises Inc.
> http://EuroCampers.com
> PO Box 339
> 1661 Veterans Dr Ste C
> DeSoto MO 63020
> 636-337-7700 voice
> 636-586-7077 fax
> 888-797-5994 - phone orders
>
>
> Barb
> 83 Westy
>
> Never regret.
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