Mar 10, 2016, 10:21 am
Last edit by: ChrisFlyer66
This is an old thread including posts through the end of 2016. The discussion continues in the new thread:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/manufactured-spending/1819025-buy-mo-s-post-office-2017-2018-gift-cards-no-longer-allowed-92.html
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/manufactured-spending/1819025-buy-mo-s-post-office-2017-2018-gift-cards-no-longer-allowed-92.html
Buy MO's at Post Office[2016]
Dec 29, 2015, 10:08 am
#91
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 65
A quick search led me to this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/us...ired.html?_r=0
Not sure if it's the one everyone's talking about
Not sure if it's the one everyone's talking about
Dec 30, 2015, 1:24 am
#92
Join Date: Sep 2005
Programs: Northwest, United
Posts: 3,256
With the glacially slow "service" and long lines at my local post office, mingling with the throngs at WalMart actually starts looking good by comparison.
Jan 3, 2016, 6:20 am
#93
Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 67
A quick search led me to this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/us...ired.html?_r=0
Not sure if it's the one everyone's talking about
Not sure if it's the one everyone's talking about
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us...-for-some.html
And the dramatic conclusion (not completely, the IJ is still fighting for the legal fees which the government is required, but does not want to pay):
http://ij.org/case/north-carolina-forfeiture/
Mar 10, 2016, 2:58 pm
#94
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 282
On $500 purchase, Vanilla Visa got declined but $500 was debited anyway.
Has this happened to anyone?
Do I get a refund automatically?
Has this happened to anyone?
Do I get a refund automatically?
Mar 10, 2016, 4:44 pm
#98
Join Date: Jun 2015
Posts: 77
So.... not trying to "stir the pot", just a question. It might be a bad question. Or a good question.
What happens if you go to the post office to buy a money order for $500 via debit card, and then pay the fees in cash.... and then you hold onto the money order for a month..... and then you go to a different post office... and ask them to give you cash for the money order. Is that suspicious? If you do $X000 per month, but not anywhere near $10000 (because structuring), then you have cash in hand. Will you start to be "investigated" if you do this at $X,000 per month (where X is less than 6?) Or will all the post offices start to want to report you because they keep running out of cash at the register?
Like I said.... not trying to suggest this as a way to MS, or that I want people to get in trouble. Just wanted to see what people think if this were to happen on a ... almost "structuring" amount-basis. I am in no way suggesting that people actually do this! Just... a thought exercise. (Please don't go and do this and abuse it).
What happens if you go to the post office to buy a money order for $500 via debit card, and then pay the fees in cash.... and then you hold onto the money order for a month..... and then you go to a different post office... and ask them to give you cash for the money order. Is that suspicious? If you do $X000 per month, but not anywhere near $10000 (because structuring), then you have cash in hand. Will you start to be "investigated" if you do this at $X,000 per month (where X is less than 6?) Or will all the post offices start to want to report you because they keep running out of cash at the register?
Like I said.... not trying to suggest this as a way to MS, or that I want people to get in trouble. Just wanted to see what people think if this were to happen on a ... almost "structuring" amount-basis. I am in no way suggesting that people actually do this! Just... a thought exercise. (Please don't go and do this and abuse it).
Mar 10, 2016, 5:11 pm
#99
Join Date: Oct 2014
Posts: 827
So.... not trying to "stir the pot", just a question. It might be a bad question. Or a good question.
What happens if you go to the post office to buy a money order for $500 via debit card, and then pay the fees in cash.... and then you hold onto the money order for a month..... and then you go to a different post office... and ask them to give you cash for the money order. Is that suspicious? If you do $X000 per month, but not anywhere near $10000 (because structuring), then you have cash in hand. Will you start to be "investigated" if you do this at $X,000 per month (where X is less than 6?) Or will all the post offices start to want to report you because they keep running out of cash at the register?
Like I said.... not trying to suggest this as a way to MS, or that I want people to get in trouble. Just wanted to see what people think if this were to happen on a ... almost "structuring" amount-basis. I am in no way suggesting that people actually do this! Just... a thought exercise. (Please don't go and do this and abuse it).
What happens if you go to the post office to buy a money order for $500 via debit card, and then pay the fees in cash.... and then you hold onto the money order for a month..... and then you go to a different post office... and ask them to give you cash for the money order. Is that suspicious? If you do $X000 per month, but not anywhere near $10000 (because structuring), then you have cash in hand. Will you start to be "investigated" if you do this at $X,000 per month (where X is less than 6?) Or will all the post offices start to want to report you because they keep running out of cash at the register?
Like I said.... not trying to suggest this as a way to MS, or that I want people to get in trouble. Just wanted to see what people think if this were to happen on a ... almost "structuring" amount-basis. I am in no way suggesting that people actually do this! Just... a thought exercise. (Please don't go and do this and abuse it).
Mar 10, 2016, 5:37 pm
#101
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 3,496
So.... not trying to "stir the pot", just a question. It might be a bad question. Or a good question.
What happens if you go to the post office to buy a money order for $500 via debit card, and then pay the fees in cash.... and then you hold onto the money order for a month..... and then you go to a different post office... and ask them to give you cash for the money order. Is that suspicious? If you do $X000 per month, but not anywhere near $10000 (because structuring), then you have cash in hand. Will you start to be "investigated" if you do this at $X,000 per month (where X is less than 6?) Or will all the post offices start to want to report you because they keep running out of cash at the register?
Like I said.... not trying to suggest this as a way to MS, or that I want people to get in trouble. Just wanted to see what people think if this were to happen on a ... almost "structuring" amount-basis. I am in no way suggesting that people actually do this! Just... a thought exercise. (Please don't go and do this and abuse it).
What happens if you go to the post office to buy a money order for $500 via debit card, and then pay the fees in cash.... and then you hold onto the money order for a month..... and then you go to a different post office... and ask them to give you cash for the money order. Is that suspicious? If you do $X000 per month, but not anywhere near $10000 (because structuring), then you have cash in hand. Will you start to be "investigated" if you do this at $X,000 per month (where X is less than 6?) Or will all the post offices start to want to report you because they keep running out of cash at the register?
Like I said.... not trying to suggest this as a way to MS, or that I want people to get in trouble. Just wanted to see what people think if this were to happen on a ... almost "structuring" amount-basis. I am in no way suggesting that people actually do this! Just... a thought exercise. (Please don't go and do this and abuse it).
Mar 10, 2016, 5:49 pm
#102
Mar 11, 2016, 8:51 am
#104
Join Date: Dec 2004
Programs: UA-1K, MM, Hilton-Diamond, Marriott-Titanium
Posts: 4,423
Just deposit it in your bank account.
Mar 11, 2016, 9:10 am
#105
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Pittsburgh
Posts: 86
I read the whole thread and didn't see whether or not the OP had his 2X points clawed back. Anyone know if that happened? I don't even have an Ink, but I'm still curious.
