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From: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.consumers
Subject: Re: WARNING ON POSTAL MONEY ORDERS
Message-ID: <3111@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Apr-84 19:44:03 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 19 19:44:03 1984
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Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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For anyone without the a checking account, Postal MO's are a quick, clean
way of sending "cash" through the mail.  Because a few people have misused
them is no reason to condemn all people who have.  After all, people have
been counterfitting money for a long time, and everyone still accepts cash.
And if you have accepted a bum bill and it is found at the bank, it will be
confiscated by the treasury department, and there will be nothing returned
to you (or even if you discover the bum bill yourself and turn it in to the
treasury department.  The best idea may be to inspect your cash or money
order carefully, cash MO's at the Post Office (where your bank account has
nothing to do with the transaction).

Also, for those of us who occationally use MO's for things, who are not
into altering them, you have done a great disservice, because it is damned
hard to redeem a Postal Money Order that is not made out to you, even when
you are the one who purchased it.

Richard Brower				Fortune Systems
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