Home Forums Gear Free Classifieds What's the fascination with postal money orders?

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I wonder if any of you urban dwelling dudes that have sworn off PayPal have ever asked the postal employee issuing your money order how they feel about guns? My guess is you're having about the same impact either way.
Rock the Boycott!!
I figure if I ignore PP's stupid policy and use the FF option I'm sticking it to them.

It is the age we live in. We should be able to make the deal and send seller a personal check that he immediately cashes and when it clears he ships item. I am 70 and have never written a bad check and most of the men I have dealt with on this and another web site like this one are honest and easy to deal with.

Illegal shipping ammo, hell I can't even send a buddy a bottle of Crown for his Birthday through UPS or USPS, States got to have their tax.

I agree with this, a postal money order is safe, costs very little in fees for the buyer. Paypal is good, but the fees really add up, 3% is not chump change,
and someone is going to have to pay them.

I remember some years back I purchased a scope from a guy in Alaska, he sent it to me right away, before I even sent the money order.

Lots of places sell money orders, the USPS is the last place I want to go, insisting on a USPS money order is strange.

I get those who don't like Paypal, someone here was royally screwed by them. I use them friends to friends even if there is no recourse with a bad deal, it's fast and convenient.

When I get the usps mo I cash it then and there at the po. Then I mail the item.

No way I can get screwed over that way.

I'd be curious to hear the story of someone "royally screwed by" PayPal?

All of this^^^

Everyone should have at least one public-facing bank account for wire transfers, etc.

I have 11 bank accounts. When a wire hits my public account, I immediately transfer the money to an “internal” account that cannot be accessed by anyone - meaning it has no debit card or checking account attached to it. It only exists at the bank.

The public bank account never has more than about $10 in it except for when I receive a wire or prime it for an outgoing wire.

What's not to like! Minimal cost, easy to verify validity, easy to cash, purchase mailed on receipt, no wait on clearance. If you are to busy to purchase one, I also am to busy to warp and mail your purchase to you. GW

Some of us ain't retired......yet.

I'm self-employed. My time during the day is money. The time spent driving and waiting at the PO costs me money. And then I can't buy as much crap on the Classifieds......

I don't like the politics of PayPal either. But in the time it takes for the shop door to open and back the pickup out I can transfer money from individual to individual.........

I prefer to send a personal check - but, a PMO isn't that big a pain for me.
Depends on what I'm buying, and how long I want to wait.
I've also had items arrive, that had to be shipped before the seller got payment.
One time, I forgot a small purchase, until it arrived - PM'd the seller, and got a check out.
He stated he'd figured something had come up, and was not worried. WHEW !!!

Money orders only for me. If you want to use some sort of modern, easy, or convenient way of doing anything at all I am completely against it. Can’t stand when people think things are better just because they are easier or more convenient. If you ask me, these kind of people are simply lazy and don’t understand the value of good old fashioned hard work.

Think about it. It is easy to do anything an easier way these days. But how hard is it to make something more complicated and to take more time to complete than necessary.

If it isn’t complicated, hard, or non enjoyable in some sort of a way then it simply isn’t worth doing at all.

Are you Amish?

Don't have any problem with that. In fact we've had an Amish colony recently start up in my Montana county. They're fine people, and many of us appreciate their life-style. And in fact my paternal grandmother, thought not Amish, was often referred to as somebody who preferred doing things the hard way--including homesteading by herself in central Montana a century ago. But I am not retired, and prefer to spend my "complicated, hard" time on my enjoyable work.

As previously noted I also don't find USPS money orders "hard" in our small community. But also don't find they have any major advantage over any other method of payment, whether old-fashioned checks (or cash) or quicker Internet methods. And apparently you don't object to the "easy" Internet to express your opinions.

Are you serious or is this post an attempt at levity? If you are serious, you are simply stupid.....

I wonder how he feels about a certified bank check...?

I won't go into a lot of detail, but I looked at some supposed N95 masks on-line early on during the covid BS. In order to try and understand what the package deal was, I put stuff in my cart. I NEVER clicked on a "pay now" button or any such thing. I thought it was pretty confusing so I backed out and went through it again to see WTF they were offering. Again, I NEVER submitted any agreement to purchase. Next thing I knew, I was getting billed for a bunch of shit I never agreed to buy. Paypal would not do a damned thing about it, nor would Citi. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on.