Page 68 - Jamaica PO Guide 1936

MONEY oan rms. G5
MONEY ORDERS.
1\Ioney Orders are issued at the Head Office, Kingston, and at the Post Offices oC
the capital of each parish. Applications for money orders addressed to the Postmaster
for Jamaica or to a Postmaster are free of postage. (The registration fee of 2d. must,
holrever, be prepaid.)
The commission on money orders drawn on • Gre·1t Britain, (including North-
ern Irehnd). United States or Amcricv, Canal Zone, C:~n.1da und Newfoundland,
and any other country except those named in the following sentence is sixpence for
the first £and threepence for each Rdditional £or fractional part. The commission on
Money Orders drawn on *Trinidad, • Barbados, • British Guiana, *Windward and
• Leeward Islands, • T urks bland, • Cnyrnan Islands, • Bermuda, • B:;h lm!lll, and
• British Honduras, is sixpence for first £2 aud two pence for each ndditional £ or
fractional part.
The limit amount for money orders dra\l'n on Gre~t Brit11in, Barbados, Trinidad,
British Guiuna, the Windward Islands, the Leeward Islands, British Honduras, Bermuda,
Bahamas, Turks Island and Cnyman Islands is £40, and on United States of Amencs,
Canada, Newfoundland, Canal Zone and Philippine Islands, $100.
No application can be entertained for compensation for alleged injury from the non-
payment of a money order at the expected time. When a money order is applied for
it must. be on the clear understanding that no ~uch claim will be allowed, and th'lt the
Post Office is not liable, under any circumstances, to more than one payment of a money
order, even when, notwithstanding the precautions that are taken, the order has been
paid to a person not entitled to receive the money.
Re-payment to the remitter of a money order cannot bo rnllde until the chief office
of the paying.country has been communicated with.
A Through Mooey Order Exchange also exists between Jamaica and certain British.
colonies and foreign couut•~cs via the United l{ingdom. Such through money orders
are subject on payment to a deduction of two pence for each £1 with a minimum charge
of four-pence. The hdl name und address of the payee of a through money order must.
be given to enable the Chief Money Order Office, London, to forward to the payee a
money order for the net amount payable, the money order issued to the remitter being
only of value as a receipt for the amount paid and should be retained by the remittet .
The followiiiiJ is a partial List of British Colonies, Protectorates, and Postal Agencie~r
abroad and of I he Principal Foreign Countries to ".&hi eh Money Order& may be fen~ throU{I la
London. t
*Ascension Australia (Commonwealth of), Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, • Ceylon,
Costa Rica, +Cyprus, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, D~nm1rk, • Egypt. • Federated Malay
States, *Fiji, France and Algeria. Germany • Gibraltar, • Gold Coas~, Greece, Holland,
Honduras (Republic of), • Hong Kong, Hungary, *Irish Free State, • India and Aden,
Italy, • Iraq. Japan. • Kenya, Luxcmburg, • :l\'!nlta, *New Zealand, • Ni cria. Norway,
• Nyasaland Protectorate. *Palestine, Poland, Pcrtug11l, • Rhodesia, (Northern nod
Southern), Roumania, • Sierra Leone, * South Africa (Union of) Spain, • Sudl\n, Swerlen,
Switzerland, • Tanganyika Territory, • To go laud (Briti~h), • Uganda, Yugo~lavia,
• Zanzibar.
T elegr·aph :"'oney Order~.
The system of Telegraph ;\foney O:dcrs ia in operation between Grc~•t J3rit~in r>nd
Jamaica. The remitter of a Telegraph Money Order is required to pay, in nddi:ion to
the M.O. cow mission. the cost of lho Telegram of Advice at the ordinary rate (2/4) or
*British Postal Orders are also is.•ued and paid in lhc!'c countries, see" Postal Orders,"
page 66.
t For eomple!<l list of places in which Money Orderii are isoued and paid see latest
edition of London Postal Guide.