Is this Bullshit???

Sent money in the post? Actual cold, hard, cash?

I'd be worried that someone would intercept it and nick off with it. It happened to one of my birthday presents once.

It happend to me too, I sent about 200 dollars to my mom from basic training and it never arrived.

You arn't supposed to send cash. I read the postal workers can tell if there is cash in it when they screen it, and they take them.

Sent money in the post? Actual cold, hard, cash? I'd be worried that someone would intercept it and nick off with it. It happened to one of my birthday presents once.

A money order. Not cash.

But I don't know what a money order is!

Is it like a cheque? Or a traveller's cheque or something?

money order

n : a written order for the payment of a sum to a named individual; obtainable and payable at a post office


Basically you take $300 to the post office, turn it into a money order, they charge a nominal fee, and you mail it to someone. That person exchanges it for $300 at a post office (or bank that accepts them). Since only the name you sent it to can cash it, it is similar to a cheque.

Ah! I getcha!

It's like the Templars form of 'banking' in the times of the Crusades - people paid their gold into one Templars 'Bank', and were given a written receipt. They could then cash that receipt in any Templars 'Bank' and get that amount of money out. Saved them from travelling bandit-ridden roads with coaches full of gold.