What protection does a purchaser of a money order have if it gets lost in the mail?
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if you have the reciept (the top part) and its not cashed w/in a certain time period the post office will replace it.  if it is from the us post office.
884648
If the letter is going to a mil. base standard postage will do, as far as the package your local post offfice will help you.
903936
Check is in the mail.
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It Can be.  Really read the customer feedback, make sure they have a lot of different ids that have bought things (not just three or four that have bought a ton).  If they have negative feedback, I'd shy away.\n\nJust remember the shipping might be quite expensive too.\n\nI'd also pay through paypal too, or a trusted way that you could get your money back.  I wouldn't use credit card or check because they can re-use the credit card or use the account number on your check to do damage.  Money order or paypal.  Paypal will also tell you if they are a verified seller - more proof they are legit.\n\nGood Luck, and don't open any of those stupid emails about your account no matter what they say.  Always delete them and if ebay is contacting you it will be online in your mailbox on ebay too.
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Guess everyone keeps missing that important difference that His Old Lady covered inher asnwer -- mail versus DHL deliveries.\n\nDHL and UPS and Fed Ex are NOT NOT NOT covered under the same federal statutes as the U.S. Mail.  If you get something delivered by them, it is NOT U.S.  mail.   It's a private company handling private deliveries.    It is not protected by federal law.   You have no recourse under federal law like you would if a U.S. Postal Service employee had delivered it.\n\nOnce DHL, UPS and Fed Ex delivers something to an address, that is the end of their responsibility.   Unless you insured it with them, and it wound up being damaged when you opened the box, you have no recourse.    That is not the case here.   Otherwise, without insurance, they don't care what happens to it, if it was delivered correctly as addressed, once it's delivered.\n\nEven with the PO, you would have a hard time getting the postal inspectors interested in this one.   They usually spend most of their time busting the big scam artists who rip off old folks on condo schemes.   Yeah, it would be illegal for your boss to open your mail, but only if the mailman delivered it to the store.   You said "a company like dhl."   That's a private company, so you're screwed.\n\nIf DHL delivered it along with everyone else's paychecks, and if they've been doing that, and your ex-boss decided to be a jerk and just not tell you....well, you don't have any recourse through the private companies.   They'll tell you they delivered it as addressed, and the rest is between you and the boss.\n\nSorry, but I wanted to get this difference cleared up.   Everyone keeps talking about "the mail", like it's all the same, and it isn't.  It's either the U.S. Postal Service or it ain't.    I've seen this before, where bosses had checks taped to the walls waiting on ex-employees to pick them up, and had run out of phone numbers to call, especially in college towns where the turnover was high and the kids moved a lot.\n\nIf you got the check, be glad, and don't waste time on recourse.   IF it was DHL, there isn't any.
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TJ Says: \nIf you have a return address, it will be sent back to you. It will probably have a circle around the stamp and a meesage on the letter.
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If you saved the stub/carbon copy from the money order before you sent it, it can be traced to see if it was cashed.  The post office can always tell you about it IF you bought it there.\n\nTake the paperwork where you bought the money order.  They can check to see if it has been cashed.
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for that, I always shipped to work, so always used the work address for return address and shipping. as for the money order, I would say it is best to put the city and zip code, but not the street address.\nAlso, I stopped purchases with money order or wire transfer.\nIf the seller does not send you the item, you can't get your money back. also, I used to rely heavily on the seller feedback rating (powerseller, 100% pos. feedback rating, all that jazz)\nI learned today that some of these people are acutally directing you to another person's legitimate feedback rating, making you think that the person you are dealing with is the actual "good" business person. \nBuyer beware.
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The claim information is on the back of the stub.  If you don't have the stub, go to the place that you purchased it and ask them to write down the info. for you.  \nKeep in mind that if will be extremely difficult to prove that the money order is yours, or that it really exists, without the stub.
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Sometimes paypal starts working.  If you already bought a money order they work similar to a check.  I use western union money orders because they are gaurnteed. Most money orders are.  Just keep the receipt that comes conected to the money order.  It tells you how to get a refund if lost.  Send the money order to where he tells you to send it.  E-mail him and ask where to send the money order.  He probably won't send you the items until he receives the money order though.
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Protection.  It keeps a paper trail of the property to ensure the that buyer can't say that he didn't get the property, and keeps the seller from saying he didn't get the money.
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i have had it happen both ways. sometimes they will print out "to the order of" and some times they give it to me blank...\ni don't think it matters... if you have a preference, just ask the issuer.
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You would want to send it Certified return receipt, meaning that the person at the other end has to sign for it to get it, and you get the receipt with their signature on it as proof they received it.  I would also photocopy the check and whatever documents you are going to send, before sending them, so if there are any problems later, you have photocopies of everything!
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You need to ask the person who sold it to you because they are the one's responsible for shipping it to you. Depending on how they shipped it, there may or may not be a tracking number.
1976
You can file a missing package report with the post office.  They will search for your package and if it is found they will return it to you.  Since the package was not insured you will not get any money back for the postage or the actual merchandise if the package can not be located.
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Was the deposit in cash?  If it was a check or money order, obviously you could present the cancelled item for verification of the correct amount.  Good luck.  You would think that the stamp in the passbook, which the bank entered, would be as good as a receipt, but I don't know for certain.  Actually, I didn't know they still issued passbooks.
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Ask the person who has it to deliver it to your friend.\n\nI wish you Peace.