Postal Money Orders Processed by the Federal Reserve
Data Table | ASCII | PDF (11 KB)The daily average volume and average daily value of items are based on the number of business days in each year.
| Year | Volume (millions of items) |
Volume percent change |
Value (billions of dollars) |
Value percent change |
Average
daily volume (thousands of items) |
Average
daily value (millions of dollars) |
Average value per postal money order (dollars) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 147 | 2.1 | 14 | 7.7 | 587 | 57 | 97 |
| 1990 | 162 | 9.9 | 16 | 15.4 | 645 | 66 | 102 |
| 1991 | 166 | 2.6 | 18 | 7.5 | 662 | 71 | 107 |
| 1992 | 181 | 8.9 | 20 | 14.0 | 715 | 80 | 112 |
| 1993 | 192 | 6.1 | 22 | 10.0 | 762 | 88 | 116 |
| 1994 | 200 | 4.2 | 24 | 7.0 | 797 | 95 | 119 |
| 1995 | 203 | 1.5 | 25 | 4.5 | 809 | 99 | 122 |
| 1996 | 206 | 1.3 | 26 | 4.0 | 816 | 103 | 126 |
| 1997 | 204 | -1.0 | 26 | 2.5 | 812 | 105 | 130 |
| 1998 | 213 | 4.4 | 28 | 7.6 | 844 | 113 | 134 |
| 1999 | 226 | 6.2 | 29 | 2.3 | 896 | 116 | 129 |
| 2000 | 230 | 1.9 | 30 | 3.2 | 913 | 119 | 131 |
| 2001 | 229 | -0.3 | 30 | 1.4 | 914 | 121 | 133 |
| 2002 | 216 | -5.6 | 30 | -1.0 | 862 | 120 | 139 |
| 2003 | 198 | -8.4 | 29 | -3.2 | 790 | 116 | 147 |
| 2004 | 187 | -5.7 | 29 | -0.6 | 739 | 115 | 155 |
| 2005 | 176 | -5.6 | 28 | -2.2 | 703 | 113 | 161 |
| 2006 | 171 | -3.1 | 28 | -1.2 | 681 | 112 | 164 |
| 2007 | 164 | -4.2 | 32 | 12.7 | 653 | 126 | 193 |
| 2008 | 146 | -10.9 | 26 | -19.2 | 579 | 101 | 175 |