When I purchased an IMPO at the local Post Office 
today (to send to Japan to pay for a cel), the 
Postmaster said "Pretty soon you won't be able to 
get these".

Huh?

"We're getting out of this business" he says.

I ask, "Are you saying that this local Post 
Office is getting out of stocking IPMOs, or the 
whole U.S. Postal Service?"

He replied that "They told us that the whole USPS 
is getting out of the business of selling IPMOs.  
It's too much trouble to keep providing the 
service".

I asked whether this would be announced, or would 
it be dropped like a bomb with no warning.  He 
said he didn't know.

So, everyone who buys cels from the many dealers 
who accept only pink IPMOs and cash:  are we all 
going to be sending a lot of cash to Japan in the 
future?  That doesn't sound very attractive to 
me, given that two (2) of my Air Mail letters to 
Japan have been significantly delayed by the 
Postal Service in the last 6 weeks....