I think it is quite common. I have to keep an updated inventory of government savings bonds until my husband's conservatorship is signed off by the judge. I have used several different browsers because the site keeps being compatible to the one I was using. Last time I checked among all of the browsers there were only three that were compatible.

I have encountered the situation of websites being incompatible with the browser I was using. Some will even mention it on their home screen. I mainly use Firefox, but have a few others at the ready for times like that.

I don't believe I have ever sent or received a money order.

A lot of my work is online and Safari can be difficult in accessing charts and graphs and downloads, etc. I do most of my work on Chrome.

Ha! I was just on the Schwab investment site and wanted to add an additional brokerage account. Firefox would not open the box I needed, so I went in via Chrome and it worked fine.

The easiest and quickest way to make a deposit is using a smartphone and a mobile app. Nearly all banks and credit unions, but for the very smallest, offer this capability. Some also offer website deposits by uploading scanned check images using a browser and a PC. If yours doesn't offer either and you regularly get checks to deposit, it's a reason to use a different institution that does offer mobile deposits. Failing that, most institution also allow deposits using ATMs.

So few deposits go through the mail these days, I'd be concerned about the bank/CU handling it properly. The problem might not be the postal service.

I too have never sent or received a money order. I'm not sure of the circumstances that would lead to doing so.

Browser incompatibility with websites isn't new and I encounter it periodically too. I think the problem is as much on the website-building tools side as on the browser side. Every PC should have at least two browsers installed - they're free, no reason not to.

Browser incompatibility is quite common. I know that I have three different browsers at work for various different applications. Frustrating; but what can you do?

In the early days of eBay (long before PayPal), one often had to pay using a Postal Money Order. I kept my tiny ME town post office busy, buying them and sending them!

I use Safari most of the time and only rarely find a web site that is not compatible with it. I keep Chrome installed on my desktop computer "just in case", though.

Elmer's right about how easy and foolproof it is to use a mobile app to make a deposit of a check in ones checking accounts. It's especially nice in bad weather or if one is ill and not going out. My grandson's love it - no begging for a ride to the drive-in bank to deposit their birthday and Christmas checks!

I'm guessing the OP was starting with cash, in which case the mobile app approach would not work. Right?

It is moot. No replacement is available. Apparently someone stole the money order after it had been mailed, forged my name and cashed it.

Would t they need to have signed the name of the recipient, not your name?

Yes, I guess they forged the name of my credit union. But they may have also altered the money order.

Thank you everyone for your expressions of concern.

It is a federal crime to steal something from the mail. Is the USPS investigating this?

I am first requesting a copy of the signed money order from Moneygram.

The mystery is solved but I don't know that I am any more comfortable although I do have my money. The credit union received the money order, which was was endorsed with my account number which was not correct and also altered, and the money was placed in another account.