Money Order Madness - Follow the money...........

[WhiskeyGirl]

I was at a convenience store the other day and saw a puzzling sign.  Money Orders were limited to $1,000 per person, per day.  

In these troubling economic times, who has so much money they convert it to money orders?  So many money orders the local store has a daily limit?

Where do these money orders go?  Are they anonymous transactions?  Money laundering?  Benefit laundering?  Drug money?

It's the mystery of "Money Order Madness"...

[WhiskeyGirl]

Bangladesh 2009 Remittances Were More Than $10 Billion

January 4, 2010 11:40 a.m. EST
Siddique Islam - AHN Correspondent

Dhaka, Bangladesh (AHN) - Bangladeshis working abroad sent home a record $10.72 billion in 2009, as remittances continued to scale new heights despite the global meltdown, officials told AHN Media on Monday.
 
They said the amount is 19.39 percent higher than what the country's more than six million workers had remitted in the previous 2008 calendar year.

Read more: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017421343#ixzz0bjvaEswq