Thanks for the clarification! Now I have a sense of how MO's work in the US.
chris On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Chris, > There are money orders and there are POSTAL money orders. Any bank or > currency exchange or grocery store can write me a money order. It is an > instrument for poor people without checking accounts. They can use them to > pay bills or send money. It assures the recipient with the credibility of > the bank, currency exchange, or grocery store's account name. > A POSTAL money order is issued by an agency of the US Government. It > might be forged, but that's a federal crime...not a good idea! It's > different from a personal check or a standard money order. > All the banks I know of here in Chicago will not write international > financial instruments - checks or money orders. They will do wire transfers > at $35 each and then charge you 3-5% to do the currency translation. > I presumed they charged more for the International Postal Money Orders > because of the currency translation costs. I presume they have separate pink > International US Postal Money Orders for Canada because of the volume of > business done and because we had established some kind of special deal with > your government and banking system or postal service. > > Regards, Bob S.
