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
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