Talk:Money order

message: :The money order system was first unformally established in Great Britain in 1792, by a private company. It didn't do very well, and in the mid-1830s the system was taken over by the post office. The trend caught on in the U.S. as a safe way to send money and as a guarantee that the money would be available.  --Can Not 20:57, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: I propose that we merge international money order with this article as their does not seem to be sufficient differences in the international vs. standard money orders to warrant a separate article. --Cab88 15:29, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merge

message: There appears to be some confusion about the difference between the negotiable instrument "money order" and orders to transfer cash money.
In English-speaking countries, a Money Order is a (negotiable) instrument, like a check, issued by a postal service or a bank, promising the payee to pay out to him the amount printed on that instrument. In continental Europe, such instrument were never issued, with some exception to "International Money Orders". In particular, the Brunswick "Postanweisung" depicted on the page was not a negotiable instument:
In contrast to the Money Order, a "Postanweisung" worked as follows: The payer went to a Post office, filled in the pink form (identifying himself, the payee, and inserting some information about the purpose of the payment and the amount to be transferred), paid in cash the amount of the money to be transferred, and a fee (1 Groschen on the Brunswick sample - see the red stamp on it), and surrendered the filled-in pink form to the clerk. The clerk, then, issued a receipt to the payer, registered the payment, declared on the pink form that the payment had been registered, and sent the pink form to the post office, in the district of which the payee was settled. At that destination post office, the pink slip and sufficient cash were (together with others) taken by a specialized postman ("Geldbriefträger" in German), who brought the slip and the amount to be transferred - in cash! - to the home or business premises of the payee. Those postmen were all male and armed. A portion of the pink slip, containing the information about the payer and the purpose of the payment (e.g. an invoice number) was handed out to the payee together with the money (in the Brunswick example, the whole pink card altogether). The payee acknowledged the payment by signature.
The "Postanweisung" service was abandoned in Germany in 2002; in Austria, it is still offered for domestic payments.
Source: German Wikipedia - Postanweisung
--77.87.224.100 (talk) 13:50, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion of Money Orders as negotiable instruments with "orders to the post office to receive cash and pay out cash" 

message: The article states that the USPS started selling money orders in the 1860s. This is a neat trick, as the United State Postal Service did not exist until the Postal Reorganization Act was passed in the 1970s. Until that time, it was the United State Post Office Department, a service of the US Government for the people; the establishment of which is in Art. II of the US Constitution.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.201.206.156 (talk) 20:59, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical Error - USPS 

message: I'm not 100% sure, but I think this article could also be merged with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_order
Or maybe just linked to.
My guess it's that they are US and UK versions of the same subject matter.
Regards,  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.50.121.64 (talk) 18:06, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  One extra proposed merge 

message: money order got ruined 99.109.164.192 (talk) 06:02, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Only have the money order stub