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2 unusual facts about postal order


Cheque and Credit Clearing Company

As well as clearing cheques, the system processes the following forms of payment: banker's drafts, building society cheques, Postal Orders, warrants, government payable orders and traveler's cheques.

Postal Order

George Archer-Shee, whose alleged cashing of a Postal Order to a fellow naval cadet led to a long-running court case and inspired Terence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy.


Nob and Nobility

Edmund convinces the Prince that he is The Scarlet Pimpernel, and collects an "enormous postal order" intended for the hero.

Postal orders of British North Borneo

Postal orders of British North Borneo are considered as collectible items and listed under a separate issuer entity by the GB Overprints Society and the Postal Order Society.


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Postal orders of British North Borneo

The earliest known postal order that is known was issued at Lahad Datu in 1909.

Postal orders of Namibia

postal order issued at Otavi on 25 November 1993 is known to be in a private collection in New Zealand.

Postal orders of the United Kingdom

The 1946 play The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan, and the two subsequent films based on it, features the story of a schoolboy trying to clear his name over the theft of a five shilling postal order.