Does a Postal Money order need to "clear"?

I always send money order checks.Some people ship right after they receive my check,some others wait until it clears.I am OK both ways.What pisses me off,is the broken DOA sft-1 transport I received back in Oct 07,that I am STILL waiting for the seller to forward to me the money to cover the cost of the repair.USPS turned the claim down,even though the damage was done during shipping,BUT packaging was very poor IMO .Seller claims he is broke!
I am stuck with the broken transport for 9 months now.
On the other end we got some good members in our community,
I need to say this.Timrhu above is a first class gentleman.
I bought vinyl from him,and he shipped the records to me BEFORE receiving my check!!!Tim you got my respect.
Regards to all
George

If a member, with high positive feedback, sends me a certified check I will ship the next day.I have shipped before payment at times to those who have earned it and are long time members.

Bigtee,

Seeing this post is about counterfeit MO, certified checks , was your rip off a counterfeit or stop payment issue?

There is a surefire way to avoid all of this crap. I only accept Paypal.