Postal Manual Vol. VIII - India Post

NOTE 4.—The individual limit of a single money order which can be paid by a village
postman or Extra Departmental Delivery Agent will be Rs.80/- and can be enhanced by the
Divisional Superintendent of post offices at his discretion to Rs.250/- wherever this is necessary.
The individual limit for the single money order which can be delivered by a postmen will be
Rs.1,000/- only.
(2) Money orders may not also be sent out for payment by a village postman, who is
likely to be absent from the post office for a longer period than a week, without the sanction of
the Head of the Circle. The application to the Head of the Circle in such cases must show clearly
that it is not possible to reduce the periods of absence of the village postman (a) by re- arranging
the existing beats (b) by appointing an additional village postman where this is justified by the
circumstances or (c) by opening small branch offices in the centre of the existing beats and must be
supported by figures showing the number and value of money orders received for payment at the
villages concerned.
(3) The rule that in every case in which a money order is paid by a village postman, or
by a postman who serves a village outside the post town, the payment must be attested by the
headman of the village or the village accountant or other respectable resident of the place where
payment is made, may be relaxed by the Superintendent at his discretion, in the case of literate
payees of means and position who objected to receive payment of money orders in the presence of,
and after identification by the village official.
127-A. Stock and sale of Indian Postal Orders and payment of British and Irish Postal
Orders.—A Superintendent of Post Offices will fix the aggregate value of Indian Postal Orders to
be stocked by Head Offices in his jurisdiction. He will supply a copy of his authority to the office
concerned.
Every Head or Sub-Office which has to pay British Postal orders and those which are
authorised to pay Irish Postal Orders will be supplied with two specimens each of the respective
Postal Orders over printed with the word “Specimen” by the Superintendent concerned who will
obtain the same from the office of the Head of Circle on requisition. When a specimen order
supplied to a Head or Sub-Office has been spoilt, lost or mislaid, the Superintendent will send a
requisition to the Circle office for a fresh specimen order to replace it. Specimen orders in every
case will be supplied by the office of the Head of the Circle direct to the Post Office concerned
under intimation to the Superintendent concerned.
127-B. Payment of British or Irish Postal Orders which are defective or which are
payable to persons who are dead.—(1) A Superintendent of Post Offices or first class
postmasters may sanction the payment of defective British or Irish Postal Orders in the following
cases :-
(a) Erasure or alteration of payee’s name:
(i) Where a purchaser of an order has made it payable first to one person and the
altered it as payable to another person, the alteration being attested by the
purchaser’s signature or initials. If, however, the alteration is not so attested,
payment may be sanctioned provided the payee is a known person who can be
easily traced and is willing to sign an indemnity on the back of the order to the
effect that he will refund the value of the order if called upon to so at any time
subsequent to the date of payment.
(ii) Where an erasure or alteration has been made in the payee’s name, profession, or
occupation by the payee or by the payee’s agent, and the circumstances in which the
erasure o alteration came to be made are satisfactorily explained.
(b) Orders receipted by a person other than the payee named :