Postal_Guide_1939 — Page 370

REMITTANCE SERVICE

Money Orders

DEFINITION

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Money orders may be sent to or received from the countries shown in the table on pages 365 to 386, which gives in detail the special conditions affecting the various countries.

INQUIRIES

Inquiries concerning money orders should be made at the Money Order Office, General Post Office, Hong Kong.

PURCHASE

When applying for money orders payable abroad the printed Requisition Forms, supplied at the General Post Office, Hong Kong, should be used.

The applicant must furnish, in full, the names and addresses of both the remitter and the payee. If the order be payable to an Asiatic an address in the vernacular must also be furnished.

In any case in which the name of the payee is not known the remitter must make a note to the effect on the front of the Requisition Form, and give such description of the payee as will be sufficient to identify him or her to the Paying Officer. The order will then be issued at the remitter's risk.

In the case of orders drawn on countries and places through London, a receipt of the issue of such order only will be given to the remitter, an order in the currency of the country of payment being issued by London, subject to a deduction on such order at the following rates:-

2d, for each £1 or fraction of £1 with a

minimum charge of 4d.

All such orders must be expressed in British currency and, if so desired, the remitter may allow for the above deduction.

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