Show Money Never Called Fur r PostmasterGeneral James passed yesterday in New York as a short relief re-lief from his arduous duties at Washington Wash-ington He declined to discuss politics or to give any information relative to pending Cabinet changes to the Star reporter last evening but stated some facts regarding Pcst Office management Perhaps you did not know he I said that there is an excess of 1800000 in the sub tteasury here which represents really the amount of money orders never claimed New York is the general clearing house of the money order system and that amou t includes all other money order offices in the United States Why ia it that so much money remains unclaimed From various reasons chiefly from misdirection of the money orders or-ders Many people who send money are careless as to the address so that it is never received In other cases people receive the money orders and instead of cashing them at once keep them In their pockets or lose them Many of those who receive money orders are foreigners with alight knowledge of the language and they do not Know how to get them cashed There are a great number of ways in which this accumulation may have occurred It is in fact not a very large amount considering that it includes all the United States and has been accumulating for seventeen seven-teen years since the postal money order system was instituted Can old money orders be cashed at any timeU Oh yes There no limit aa to time and if you print tbese facts in the Star I doubt not there will be a large number of old ones presented for payment There has already been a statement about the matter and Postmaster Pearson and I agree that there will be probably 100000 of the 1800000 reclaimed at once The PostmasterGeneral during this conversation was preparing to return to Washington and at Us closet close-t ok a cab for Jersey City whence he departed on the 730 trainNew York Star |