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Repayment to Sender: The sende.r of n postal order can obtain repayment of the
amount (but not the poundage) on presenting the order and the countCJ foil at the i~suing
ofiice. If the order h11s been crossed for P3ymcnt through a bank the sendtr must first
cancel the croi!Sing by writing across the face of Lhe order the words "please pay casn"
addiJ1g his initiuls.
Ercuure1, A /1 erJiio!ll, &:c.: U any erasure or alteration is made or if the order is cut,
defaced, or mutilntod, payment muy be refused.
Postal Order1 uol Neuoliable: Postal orders do not, like Bank of England notes,
represeut value in themselves. If nn order is lost or stolen no person into whose hands it
may full, though himself innocent, is entitled to receive the amount of the order. The
rightful ownar is alone entitled to cash the order.
REPLY COUPONS
Int.crnntional Reply Coupons arc sold at the Money Order Office, 1\ingston, at 8d.
each, and Imperial Heply Coupons at 3d. ench. The former represent the posla~c on
a siu~le-ruto letter mailed m any country of I he Postul Union; and the latter the po~tnge
of a stngle-rate letter mailed m ny country of the British Empire. Coupons arc cashoo
a
at the rnte of 5d. for a 5Q..centime, and 24c1. for un Imperial coupon.
Not more than ten coupons may be 110ld to or exchanged by the same person on any one
day.