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