I’ve been buying about $4K of money orders per trip to Walmart since Simon started their promo. So this has been going on for about 2-3 months now. I’d average about 2 trips a week. Remember when you go over $1K, you need to provide your driver’s license. When you go over $3K, then you […]
Introduction A reader emailed me a couple of weeks ago about how he had deposited some money orders into his Wells Fargo checking account and then received a notice saying his money orders had been returned unpaid. Bad money orders He had also deposited some money orders into a credit union as well that […]
Introduction When you start ramping up on money orders, you will get tired of filling in your name, possibly address, and signing the back of the money order. I mean, let’s try to shave off the 5 seconds in writing my name, right? I had heard the HH (heavy hitters) had bought a name and […]
Introduction I had a brain fart last week. I was depositing some Moneygram money orders into “Crappy Bank’s” ATM. In the past, Crappy Bank’s ATMs couldn’t read Moneygram money orders; I’ve always had to type in the amount. It’s worse when the money order’s ink is so light that the ATM doesn’t even give me […]
Introduction Man, I hate the armpit of America. But it’s really the only place in my area that still take non-named VGC w/o a big hassle. And of course the money order machine is broken half the time. On this day though, on a Monday morning, it was working…or so the cashier thought. Money […]