Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 885. First, know what you are filling: Money Order Control Record. The document is titled DD Form 885, Money Order Control Record, December 1955.
Then look at the edition date: not stated, publisher status not stated. After that, ask whether the form covers your situation. It almost certainly does regardless of your branch — DD forms run Department-wide rather than through a single service.
Then settle the schedule. You are working under not stated, with not stated responsible for the document, and your organization layers its own deadlines on that. Ask before you assume a date.
Before you download, pick your approach — editable file or printed page. What follows covers the formats first, then the entries, then what you do afterward.
Now fill it in. Work from the top of the page downward, and do not jump ahead — the identifying block comes first, the substance of your entry second, the certification last. Later boxes often depend on what you put at the top.
Your first action is verification. Find the edition date on the form and match it against not stated. A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
Look up an unclear item on the form face before anywhere else, then in not stated. Should the two texts conflict, the directive is the one you follow.
Download the form
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 2 pages, and you will complete roughly 200 fields.
You will not be charged for any of these; the whole set is free. Before you start entering data, save the file to your computer and open it there. Fields behave far more reliably in a desktop reader than in a browser preview.
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.
Submit the completed form through the channel not stated or your local guidance specifies. Save a copy for yourself before it leaves your hands, whether that means a scan, a photograph or a duplicate file.
Should you need a related form, look it up by its number. The DD sequence is Department-wide, which makes your search simple: no service qualifier, no branch-specific variant to track down.
Here is where people go wrong. They see a number in an instruction and download whichever form matches it. But DA and DD are separate systems — Army-specific in one case, Department-wide under not stated in the other — so check which series you were sent to before you take the file.
Do not archive this file and reuse it in a year. Forms are reissued as directives are revised, as data requirements shift, and as statutory notice text is amended. Your protection is simple: download fresh each time and confirm the edition date.
Finally, understand the limits of what you have read. This page distributes a published Department of Defense form and describes how to fill it out. It does not give legal or procedural advice, and it cannot promise any outcome for your particular case. For that, contact not stated, your administrative office, or the authority identified 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?