content: NEVER EVER EVER USE POST OFFICE BRAND MONEY ORDER! 1 > untrackable for over 90 days. Min 90 day investigative wait if you claim stolen. I know personally. 2>  YOU CANNOT REDEEM THEM FOR CASH if over 200 in aggregate in downtown san Fransisco or downtown LA (probably anywhere major) POST OFFICE WILL NOT PROCESS MORE THAN 200 dollars per day in San Francisco on Market Street in a large branch.  $ 300 is their typical daily limit, and I had to visit 5 times to get them to not say "sorry we have no cash in any drawer come back another time" You cannot redeem them NEVER USE USPS items they also require photo ID unlike other instruments at other banks