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Subject:Re: What would you do?
From:Al and Sue Brase
Date:Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:49:36 -0600

I found it once, I swear!
Al Brase

Tim Demarest wrote:

> 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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