postal orders

[skol]

How do I cancel a postal order so it cannot be cashed?

[dot.hawkes]

i don't believe that is possible, did you cross the PO 'account payee'? who did you make it payable to? It's not the same as a cheque I don;t think cos the post office have your money and they honour the postal order, at a guess

[Ethel]

You can't.

[dzug]

You need to ring the helpline number (on your receipt).

It OUGHT to be possible (all POs are checked against a database at the PO before they are cashed) though I don't know if it can actually be done.

Under the old manual system you couldn't do it - you had to wait ? 6 months until the PO expired before they would check and give you your money back if it hadn't been cashed in the meantime.