Dave,
Paying a Canadian with a US Postal Money Order is incorrect. Our postal
employees will ASK where you want to send the Postal Money Order. To Canada,
they will give you a pink Money Order that is appropriate for Canada. They
will place it in your hands. For anywhere else(?) outside the USA, you pay
the local post office and they give you a receipt to mail off to St.Louis
where the US Postal Service will send something to your seller. (This is a
pain in the ass and slow to boot.)
Your buyers have to be really DUMB to send a US Postal Money Order
instead of an International US Postal Money Order.
Regards, Bob S.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> BZZZZT
> Not if it's an international purchase.
> Many times, even with the international USPS money orders, there were/have
> been fraud alerts at banks and as such Canadian Banks wouldn't accept any
> USPS money orders. Even now, Canadian sellers have to specifically state
> that the US buyers should pay in the USPS International (pink in color)
> money order and not the Local/National (green in color) money orders which
> clearly state "Cashable ONLY in the U.S.A. and its territories". We're
> close.. but Canada is not a state of the union just yet ;-)
>
> For international purchases, BidPay seems to work well as everyone, for one
> reason or another, seems to deem that Western Union Money Orders are on the
> "up and up".
>
> Go figure.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
