Page 63 - Jamaica Post Office Guide 1938

MONEY ORDERS.
MONEY ORDERS.

Money Orders are issued at the Head Office, Kingston, and at the Post Offices of
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,
however, be prepaid.)
The commission on money orders drawn on * Great Britain, (including North­
ern Ireland), United States of America, Canal Zone, Canada and Newfoundland,
and any other country except those named in the following sentence is sixpence for
the first £ and threepence for each additional £ or fractional part. The commission on
Money Orders drawn on * Trinidad, * Barbados, * British Guiana, * Windward and
* Leeward Islands, * Turks Island, * Cayman Islands, * Bermuda, * Bahamas, and
’ British Honduras, is sixpence for first £2 and two pence for each additional £ or
fractional part.
The limit amount for money orders drawn on Great Britain, Barbados, Trinidad,
British Guiana, the Windward Islands, the Leeward Islands, British Honduras, Bermuda,
Bahamas, Turks Island and Cayman Islands is £40, and on United States of America,
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 such claim will be allowed, and that 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 be made until the chief office
of the paying country has been communicated with.
A Through Money Order Exchange also exists between Jamaica and certain British
colonies and foreign countries through the British Post Office. 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 full name and 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 remitter.
The following is a partial List of British Colonies, Protectorates, and Postal Agencies
abroad and of the Principal Foreign Countries to which Money Orders may be sent through
London, f
’ Ascension, Australia (Commonwealth of), Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, ’ Ceylon,
Costa Rica, ’ Cyprus. Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark. ’ Egypt, ’ Federated Malay
States, * Fiji, France and Algeria. German}' * Gibraltar, ’ Gold Coast, Greece, Holland,
Honduras (Republic of), * Hong Kong, Hungary, * Irish Free State, * India and Aden,
Italy, ’ Iraq, Japan, ’ Kenya, Luxemburg, * Malta, * New Zealand,’ Niseria. Norway,
’ Nyasaland Protectorate. ’ Palestine, Poland, Pcrtugal, ’ Rhodesia, (Northern and
Southern), Roumania, ’ Sierra Leone, ’ South Africa (Union of) Spain, ’ Sudan, Sweden,
Switzerland, ’ Tanganyika Territory, ’ Togoland (British), ’ Uganda, Yugoslavia,
* Zanzibar.
Telegraph Money Orders.
The system of Telegraph Money Orders is in operation between Great Britain and
Jamaica. The remitter of a Telegraph Money Order is required to pay, in additiun to
the M.O. commission, the cost of the Telegram of Advice at the ordinary rate (2/4) or
’ British Postal Orders are also issued and paid in these countries, see “ PostalOrders,”
page 74.
f For complete list of [daces in which Money Orders are issued and pa d see latest
edition of British Post Office Guide.