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Postal money order receipt
Object Details
- Description
- This postal money order receipt, number 69516, is handstamped “November 19, 1908, Menomonie, Wis., M.O.B. [money order business]” The amount totaled $3.00. The receipt was enclosed in an official postal envelope (museum id 2002.2032.2.1) bearing the name "Mrs. Q. Nichols."
- In 1908 the fee for this money order was five cents. Money orders at this time had a maximum allowable amount of $100. Rural postmasters were instructed to "make it a practice, when mailing to the remitter the receipt which is detached from the advice of a money order issued upon application made through a carrier, to inclose [sic] a blank application, Form 6001, for the remitter's use when next in need of a money order." The intent was to make the service convenient and to speed the process so that the patrons would have a money order prepared when the rural carrier arrived.
- Reference:
- Post Office Department. United States Official Postal Guide Ser. 3, 1, 1908-1909. Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Co. Printers, 1909.
- Credit line
- Donated by Carol and David Forde in Memory of Gustav Koch
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- November 19, 1908
- Object number
- 2002.2032.2.2
- Type
- Postal Money
- Medium
- paper; ink / printed; handstamped
- Dimensions
- 8.9 x 3.8 cm (3.5 x 1.5 in.)
- Place
- Wisconsin
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Topic
- The Gilded Age (1877-1920)
- Customers & Commerce
- Record ID
- npm_2002.2032.2.2
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