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376 POSTAGE DIRECTORY — MONEY ORDERS.
Stamps,
XXIX. Prepayment of inland letters, &c., must be by stamps, except at the Chief Post-Office,
London, where prepayment of such letters from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. is permitted in money, provided
that the postage to be paid be not less than £1. In the prepayment of books, also, to the colonies,
stamps only must be used ; but in the prepayment of letters and newspapers, prepayment can be
made either in stamps or money. Except by soldiers and sailors in her Majesty's service, British
postage stamps, however, are not available in the payment of letters, &e., coming into the
country.
XXX. Adhesive stamps, before being used, should be examined to ascertain that they will firmly
adhere, as in the event of their falling off, the letters become charged with postage, which in such
cases is double the prepaid rate ; they should then be placed on the front of the letter, and on the
right-hand corner of the upper side.
V-MONEY-ORDERS.
XXXI. Requisition Forms for Money-Orders are sold at the rate of ten forms for one penny,
or of five or any smaller number of forms for a halfpenny.
XXXII. No order is to contain a fractional part of a penny.
XXXIII. With the subjoined exceptions, no Money-Order can be issued unless the applicant
furnish, in full, the surname and one Christian name, both of the remitter (the person who sends
the order) and the payee (the person to whom the money is to be paid), together with the remitter's
address ; and if the name of either party be tendered at greater length, it must be received and
advised accordingly.
Particulars required for Money-Orders.
1. If the particulars be furnished in writing (whether by filling up the blanks in the printed
form or wholly in manuscript), it will not be necessary to give the Christian name in
full ; it will be sufficient if the first letter be given.
2. If the remitter or payee be a peer or a bishop, his ordinary title is sufficient ; and if
a firm, the usual designation of such firm will suffice, except a company trading under
a title which does not consist of the names of the parties composing it, as the " Carron
Company," to which kind of company the above privilege does not extend.
3. When the remitter notifies in writing tbAt the order is to be paid through a bank, it is
left to his option to give or withhold the name of the payee. The issuing officer must
in such case cross the order in the way that cheques are commonly crossed when they
are to be paid through a bank.
XXXIV. When application is made for a Money-Order payable in London, or any other town
where there is a plurality of Money- Order Offices, the remitter should say at which of such offices he
wishes it to be paid, otherwise the order can be paid at the Chief Office alone. It is not, however,
incumbent on a Postmaster to supply such information relative to local or provincial offices.
XXXV. An order once issued cannot be cancelled ; and should repayment or transfer to a dif-
ferent office or alteration of name be required, the remitter must apply to the Metropolitan
Office.
Payment of Money-Orders.
XXXVI. When an order is presented for payment (otherwise than through a bank) the Postmaster
has first to see that the signature of the payee be as full as the name given in the advice, and be
not in any way inconsistent therewith. He has then to call on the applicant to give the name of
the remitter, and if the reply be correct, the order will be paid, unless the Postmaster have good
reason for believing that the applicant for payment is neither the rightful claimant, nor deputed by
him. When an order is paid through a bank, it is sufficient that it be receipted (without regard to
any discrepancy between the signature and the name in the advice, or to whether the receipt is
given by the payee himself or by another person), and that it be presented (crossed with the name
of the receiving bank) by some person known to be in the employment of the bank.
XXXVII. The holder of a Money-Order is always at liberty to direct, by crossing it, that the
order be paid through a bank, even though its payment was not originally so restricted; and
when the order is thus crossed, the question put on the presentation of an ordinary Money-
Order is dispensed with.