USPS money order

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I sent a USPS money order to a member on here about a week ago, and he hasn't received it yet, and contacted me on Saturday. I live in MD, he lives in Jersey, so it shouldn't take this long, in my guesstimation. He's working with me on this, I'm going to get my receipt slip for the money order (it's at home up on my tackboard, and start a trace on it. I've sent payments to the west coast in the past week, and they have been received, so why should it take a week to go about a three hour drive? I can understand a day or two because of the Christmas rush, but a week? Esav, any other USPS employees out there, what are the particulars on a trace? Do I have to wait a set amount of time? I realize that all rules go out the window during the holiday season, but I hope this hasn't gotten lost in the Black Hole that is the USPS.
 
I'd wait a bit. I just did a transaction with priorty mail that should have taken 2 days take over a week. :grumpy:
 
The Last Confederate said:
Keep in mind the increase in ground mail this close to XMASS + weather can also cause delays.
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I've got visions of flipped over delivery trucks on I-95 :eek: :eek: , and my payment floating away into a snowdrift.
 
Be patient. Mail volume is up and I wouldn't be surprised if security measures are up for the season also, which would slow down processing the mail from one area to another.

Any individual letter can be delayed for no discernable reason, ands I don't think you will get any cooperation trying to trace anything for a month. "Trace" by the way is just a word. There is no conceivable way to locate a missing ordinary First Class letter. NYC handles about ten million a day so you can imagine the flood in the northeast as a whole.

Give it another week. i've had the occasional inexplicable delay, but they've all gotten there.
 
I would say give it till at least the end of the week.I know it is frustrating,but it is a busy time.I noticed even priority mail taking an extra day or two.My wife just had a book sent media mail and that sucker took 35 day's to get here from Florida to NY :confused:
 
flipped over delivery trucks on I-95
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There was this one time I was following one of those medium sized USPS trucks up I75 and everytime the truck went over a bump the door in back would open 4 or 5 feet then come down again. I could see all the nice bins of mail stacked inside.

I decided the last thing I needed was a "shower" of mail down on my windshield. :eek: I changed lanes and went past.
 
Word of advice, if you mailed it to a PO Box and not a street address, I'd call the Post Office to see if they stuck it in an adjacent box, or transposed a few digits, so call and ask for the Post Master for that particular post office and ask for a little help.
As I had one I sent down to NC from PA, took a LONG time, I called down the
day we decided that if it hadn't arrived I'd send down a second one priority mail, but I called and the guy wasn't too coorperative but low and behold that afternoon the fellow emailed and said HEY it's here now, no kidding, but I had already sent out the second one...oh well!

G2
 
What G2 said. I have twice had POB stuff sent to the wrong entire post office in the wrong entire town. Took us two months to find it. How that can happen is a puzzlement.
 
One of the standard problems in delivering mail is that a geographical location is not necessarily a mailing address.

I've seen complaints of delayed or misdelivery where the post office box was in one zip and the zip the addressee lived in was in another. The mail was addressed to Mr. X at POB Y -- at the zip he lived, not of the POB. This happens a bit in NYC where the "local" post office where his POB is may be closer than the post office his home mail is delivered from.

Another problem is simple mirseading of a zip or box number, occasionally misguided by semi-legible handwriting.
 
All you can really do is report it stolen in which case you'll have to buy another and send it and wait a month or more to get your money back on the first one.

Giving it another week is a lot easier than the hassle of getting your money back. Trust me on this one, I've been there.
 
The seller told me he got it! :)Even though I don't need to contact the PO about it now, here is the response I got. I would have had to wait 60 days before I filed a claim.

Dear Customer,

You may inquire about the status of a money order by going to your local
Post Office and completing, signing, and filing a Money Order Inquiry,
Form 6401. You must present the customer receipt to the Post Office for
verification and pay a $3.00 fee.

If the money order has been cashed a photocopy will be mailed to the
address shown on the Form 6401.

If the money order has not been cashed a refund will be issued to the
address shown on the Form 6401.

Please note: Refunds will not be issued until 60 days after the money
order issue date. Also, if the original Money Order is cashed after
being replaced, you will be held liable for reimbursement to the post
office for the replacement Money Order that was issued. We CANNOT put a
STOP or a hold on Money Orders. Money Orders have no expiration date.

The reference number for your inquiry is # xxxxxxx.

Thank you for contacting the St. Louis Accounting Help Desk of the
United States Postal Service
 
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