The Department of Posts of Government of India has denied some media reports that its Money Order service has been discontinued.
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“The Money Order service continues to be available to the common man at the same service charge with the same facility of the money being delivered at the door step of the addressee”, it said in a statement.
An NDTV Report claimed last week that the 135-year-old Money Order Service had come to an end. “Like in the case of the telegram, India Post has quietly discontinued the traditional money order service, which was an integral part of the department since 1880, facilitating pan-India door-delivery of funds to a payee from over 155,000 post offices”, it had claimed.
The Department in a clarification further said that this service had been made more reliable and fast by communicating information about the money to be transferred electronically between the booking and delivery post office. Thus, the money reaches faster to the addressee. The nature of service remains the same and it is also being called an electronic Money Order or eMO.
Department of Posts also has another service offering instant online Money transfer service called as Instant Money Order (iMO), where the receiver can receive payment in cash through Post Offices.