Oh .. I agree that they'd have to be dumb :) but the problem is, I've received USPS money orders (green in color) even AFTER stating that we need the pink colored ones. I figured by discussing color and not "international vs national" that it would be easier but alas I was wrong. In rural towns though, I'm not so sure that the postal employees know that Canada is not a state of the union :-) and I'm sure to some of them they must think we use dogsleds to get our mail ;-)
Cheers, Dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 10:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Safe payment types. Was: Re:PayPal, C/C, and fees (WAS: RE: FS: MZ-S, KX... 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
