20 
POSTAL SAVINGS 
to pay the money order fee. Many immigrants, 
moreover, distrusted American banks, and, be 
ing familiar with postal savings banks in their 
home countries and having great confidence in 
government institutions, remitted their savings 
to these home banks. How extensively this was 
done there are no figures to show. 35 
35 Cf. George von L. Meyer, Postal Savings Banks; North 
American Review, CLXXXVIII, pp. 250-252.