Date:         Fri, 5 Aug 2005 16:06:36 -0400
Reply-To:     The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
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From:         The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
Subject:      Re: eBay ship to US only - why
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> The problem isn't shipping, it is getting paid.  Unless you 
> use PayPal, it is a PITA to deposit international money 
> orders, etc.  My bank refused one from Quebec and it cost me 
> $10 to return a $19 IMO!  The US Post Office could not verify 
> it so they refused to take it too.  I had to return the thing 
> for cash! 


U.S. Postal regulations state that a U.S. post office is supposed to cash a
US$ Canadian postal money order. Every post office has a copy of this
regulation and is supposed to abide by its terms. I also got turned down
once, and asked the postal clerk to kindly look it up herself. She did,
scowled, and cashed my money order. 

http://pe.usps.gov/text/Imm/immc3.html#0.2.ZJ24PZ.7ZM6JJ.17T86H.B 

(toward the bottom).

However, here is a report that some counterfeit Canadian postal money orders
may now be in circulation, so this may be worth considering (if true). I
would doubt that a money order counterfeiter would be much interested in
using them to buy Vanagon parts; I'm sure there are much safer and more
lucrative ways to launder counterfeit money than to order an obcsure Vanagon
part off of Ebay and have it mailed to you!  However, if this is true, it
may affect the USPS's money order cashing policy.

http://scamvictimsunited.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=274&

- Ron Salmon
  The Bus Depot, Inc.
  www.busdepot.com
  (215)  234-VWVW

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