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The Money Order System

provides a cheap, safe and convenient means of transmitting money. Domestic Postal Money Orders are payable in the U. S. and her island possessions, which includes Hawaii, Porto Rico, the "Canal Zone" on the Isthmus of Panama, Guam, the Philippines, Tutuila, Samoa; at the U. S. postal agency at Shanghai, in the Bahamas, Bermuda, British Guiana, British Honduras, Canada, Cuba, Newfoundland and Antigua, Barbadoes, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Virgin Islands.

Fees: From three cents for sums up to $2.50 to thirty cents for sums up to $100.

Special Delivery. A special delivery stamp, or ten cents worth of stamps in addition to the lawful postage, secures the immediate delivery of any piece of mail matter at any U. S. post office within the carrier limits of the city delivery office and within a mile limit of any other post office. Rural lettercarriers are required to deliver special delivery mail at the residences of patrons of their routes if they live within a half mile of the routes. When ordinary stamps are used to obtain immediate delivery of mail, the words "Special Delivery" must be printed or written on the envelope or covering.

If special delivery matter fails of delivery because there is no person at the place of address to receive it, the matter is returned to the post office and delivered in the ordinary mail. A special delivery stamp does not give a piece of mail any other security than that given to ordinary mail matter.