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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 885 — DD Form 885, Money Order Control Record, December 1955 — exists to Money Order Control Record, and it applies across the services rather than inside one. That is what the DD prefix encodes: joint issue, single edition, every branch and defense agency working from identical paper.
not stated is the prescribing publication and not stated the office responsible for the document. Deadlines belong to local implementing guidance, not to either of those, so a submission date is a question for the receiving office.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
Available: PDF, across 2 pages, roughly 200 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
Take the fillable pdf unless you have a reason not to. Fillable means the boxes are real fields that accept typed text and retain it in the file. Printable means a flat blank — no fields, printer and pen only. The difference is not cosmetic: one produces a record that reproduces cleanly through scanning and forwarding, the other depends on penmanship.
Xfdl needs IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible client — a pdf reader will not open it. The format was the Defense standard for electronic forms across the Department for years, which is why it persists in DD distribution long after most users moved to pdf.
Nothing costs anything here. Work in a full desktop pdf application rather than a browser preview; field behaviour in browsers is unreliable.
What the form asks for
- Number of blank forms received by A P O.
- Number of blank forms received by N P O
- Insert location or A P O number.
- Blank money order forms received by: Press space bar to mark X if A P O.
- Mark X for blank m o forms received by N P O.
- Mark X if blank m o forms received from P M
- Mark X if blank m o forms received from P F O
- Serial numbers received, inclusive. Use a separate form for each series received. Enter beginning number.
- Enter ending serial number of series received.
- Money orders issued to military postal clerks: Page 1. Serial numbers, inclusive. Beginning number of series, line 1.
- Ending number of series issued, line 1.
- Signature of clerk to whom issued, line 1. If mailed, include unit number and registration number.
- Date issued, line 1.
- Number of forms issued, line 1.
- Number of forms remaining on hand, line 1.
- Custodian's initials, line 1.
- Beginning serial number of series issued, page 1, line 2.
- Ending number of series, page 1, line 2.
- Signature of clerk to whom issued, page 1, line 2. If mailed, include unit number and registration number.
- Date issued, page 1, line 2.
- Number of forms issued, page 1, line 2.
- Number of forms remaining on hand, page 1, line 2.
- Custodian's initials, page 1, line 2.
- Beginning serial number of series issued, page 1, line 3.
Edition check comes first, ahead of any entry. Compare the printed date to not stated and replace anything older. Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
Submit to the office named in not stated or in local instruction; retain a duplicate before it leaves. Joint routing often sends a DD form across organizational boundaries, and tracing one afterward is not a same-day matter.
Look up cross-referenced forms by series and number. DD numbering is unified across the Department, which removes the usual step of identifying which service issued the thing.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
Three drivers of revision: directive reissue, altered collection requirements, updated statutory notice text. No notification accompanies any of them, so download fresh and confirm not stated rather than reusing an archived file.
Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 885?
- DD Form 885, Money Order Control Record, December 1955
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?