(PSA)Postal Money order problem...

[lightload]

My post office is always short on cash. I will take a check from old heads here. Sometimes I send cash in the mail at my own risk. I learned that if a letter with a money order gets lost or stolen, I still lose. Pay Pal burned me. No thank you. Money orders are a pain.

[farmbif]

ive never had a bank where I had an account refuse a US postal money order and I dont do much online anything so I dont have PayPal, hello or any of them other things

[mf79]

do wal mart money orders, they charge but they cash them

[scattershot]

Happened to me a few years back, so now I avoid them like the plague.

[jmorris]

Yes. If I want to cash one, I never go there in the morning, I wait until later in the day (the closer to close, the more cash in tills).

My bank also takes them but then, you may as well accepted a check...

[HATCH]

Yes. If I want to cash one, I never go there in the morning, I wait until later in the day (the closer to close, the more cash in tills).

My bank also takes them but then, you may as well accepted a check...

This is exactly what I was about to type.
I found out years ago. The USPS opens the drawer with less then $200 in small bills/change.
I would walk in with a $800 money order and was told the exact same thing. Didn't have cash.
So now I just deposit it in my bank and not worry about it. My bank will not cash a USPS money order. They will only deposit it.

They only have large amounts of cash when people bring in cash to purchase money orders.
Money orders can only be purchased with Debit cards (with pin) or cash.

[maddog13]

Never had any trouble cashing postal money orders. I can do it at my bank or even better I just take it to my local liquor store and the owner of the store does it for me no problem, no charge

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

My favorite clerk at my small town post office, starts work at noon or 1pm? Anyway, her drawer is always light of cash until 3 or 4 pm.
I go, when I go, if they are light on cash, I got to my local bank (2 blocks away)...it's nice living in a small town...and after reading this thread, I am gonna ask the USPS clerk to confirm the serial number before I head off to bank, thanks M-Tecs for that bit of info.

[35 Rem]

Since I only buy and practically never sell anything I just realized that I've never received a Money Order but I would assume that most would take it to a bank to cash. I would have never thought to take it back to the post office to get cash for it.