Postal orders were issued in South Africa from 31 May 1910. South Africa issued both its own postal orders and British postal orders.
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It is not yet known when Bangladesh began to issue its own postal orders, but Bangladesh is still issuing postal orders today.
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British postal orders began being issued and encashed in Nigeria from 1907. British postal orders were also overprinted for use in Southern Nigeria.
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Perfinned British postal orders were used to pay out winning bets on the football pools and these postal orders are very sought after by collectors.
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The postal orders that were supposed to have been returned to the issuing entities were put into storage. Upon the capture of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic during 1900 by the British, the paid postal orders were looted and souvenired. The Cape of Good Hope postal orders and the Natal postal orders that bear postmark datestamps of post offices in the Orange Free State and the South African Republic with dates during September 1899 and later are extremely sought after by collectors, as are Orange Free State postal orders and South African Republic postal orders bearing postmark datestamps of post offices in the Cape of Good Hope and Natal.
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Issued postal orders do not come with counterfoils, as the counterfoils were kept by the post office for recording purposes. Any postal orders that still have a counterfoil attached are remainders from books, which were souvenired during the Second Boer War. These are of interest to collectors of the Postal Orders.
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One of the most famous postal orders in history - the one alleged to have been cashed by George Archer-Shee. This is a list of countries that have used postal orders.
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The South African Republic's postal orders were introduced on 1 January 1898, which was also the date that the South African Postal Union Convention came into effect. The postal orders are inscribed in Afrikaans. Issued postal orders do not have counterfoils attached, as the counterfoils were kept by the post office for recording purposes. Any postal orders with counterfoils still attached are from books souvenired after the post office was captured during the Second Boer War.
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The first postal orders to be issued in Ireland were British postal orders issued on 1 January 1881. At this time, Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. This lasted until 1922.
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Overprinted Pakistani postal orders were issued in Bangladesh as late as 1983.
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There are still a number of countries that are issuing postal orders.
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Canada had its own postal orders (called postal notes) from 1898 until 1 April 1949, when these were discontinued and withdrawn. A British Forces Post Office in Suffield, Alberta was issuing British postal orders as late as July 2006.
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It is not known when postal orders began to be issued in Brunei.
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In 1993–94, £70 and £100 postal orders were introduced. These have been seldom seen.
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Since 1945, the use of postal orders has been declining, as postal orders were a popular form of payment for lottery tickets, in events such as the football pools and for payment for bets on horse racing. The postal orders that were issued from a football pools machine have a perfinned series of numbers and letters. Occasionally, these turn up from time to time. These are sought after by postal order collectors.
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New Zealand 1907 One Shilling Postal Note Postal orders were issued in New Zealand from 1886 until 1986.Harwood, J. New Zealand Postal Notes 1886—1986: A Priced Catalogue Including Notes on British Postal Orders Issued in New Zealand. 1st edn. Sarasota: Jack Harwood, 2010.
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Most British Forces Post Offices (or BFPOs for short) have issued postal orders. BFPOs are located in British military bases around the world. Postal Orders issued at BFPOs enable members of the armed forces to purchase items by mail order and to send money home.
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Through the year more modern versions of postal orders have evolved, on example being M-PESA.
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Postal orders are not legal tender, but a type of promissory note, similar to a cheque.
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Chinese Imperial Post began issuing postal orders since 1897, the so-called "remittance certificate". After purchase, these certificates are payable at main post offices in China and usually bearing franked postage stamps represented as fee. Since 1925, a set of special stamps were used by post offices to issue secured postal orders.. Since 1929, Chinese Post were capable of selling international postal orders cashable under UPU protocol at a few other countries incluing Japan, Britain, France and US.
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Postal orders have been issued by Cyprus at various times. Information about them is not easily available.
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Postal orders were issued in Hong Kong at various times when it was still a British colony.
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British postal orders are issued in the local post offices. It is not known when this practice started.
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Two catalogues have been published, one on overprinted British postal orders and one on New Zealand postal notes.
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It is not yet known when these were exhausted and replaced by postal orders overprinted 'REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA' only. The republican overprinted ones are known to have been issued as late as 1972. It is not yet known when the issue of British postal orders ceased in South Africa.
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The first Irish postal orders was a transitional series overprinted on British postal orders. The Irish inscription ('Irish postal order') was overprinted on the inscription . This series caused a bit of a stir, as the portrait of King George V was not overprinted. These were issued from 4 April 1922.
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The Fife Council PPOs were introduced in 1996 and were discontinued on 31 March 2001. In late 2002, the Royal Mail decided to introduce a series of gift postal orders. These have been retained. Since then, Royal Mail introduced a series of postal orders which can be used for purchases at Argos stores.
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Five-shilling British postal order overprinted for use in Nigeria used in 1947 - 3d additional poundage to be paid in Nigeria In 1881, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland included Ireland but in 1922, three-quarters of the island became independent as the Irish Free State and began its own independent issues of postal orders. Since 1922, British postal orders have been issued in the four parts of the UK (England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales). In the 1880s and 1890s, the issue of postal orders spread to most parts of what was then the British Empire. As time went on, the issue of postal orders declined in most parts of the British Empire, later the British Commonwealth.
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Postal orders are now becoming increasingly popular as a form of payment, thanks to the auction websites such as eBay, and it is much safer for the seller than paying by cheque, as postal orders cannot bounce. The vendor does not have to wait for clearance, which happens with cheques. In April 2006, the postal order system underwent a revamp, enabling individual post offices to print postal orders on demand in any value from 50p through to 250 pounds, instead of the previous 50p to 20 pounds fixed range. As a result, single postal orders can now be purchased for odd denominations such as 66p or 99p, rather than having to make up odd amounts through a combination of pre-printed denominations and affixed stamps.
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Postal orders are gaining in popularity as collectibles, especially among numismatists who collect banknotes. There is an active numismatic organisation in the UK called the Postal Order Society that was established in 1985 with members both domestically and overseas. They hold twice-yearly postal auctions of postal orders and related material from across the British Commonwealth.
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A newsletter is published quarterly called Postal Order News, which contains news and articles mostly submitted by members of the Society. Annually, there is a postal auction of postal orders and related items. A sales list is available to sell and buy postal orders. Subscriptions are £5 UK, £7 Europe, Elsewhere £6 surface and £9 airmail.
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Hong Kong Postal Orders by Wilson Yeung. Pages 19 and 20, Postal Order News Number 70, Volume 18, Part 4, October 2003.
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Postal orders of Rhodesia were issued some time after the UDI, but it is not yet known when they began to be issued.
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At first it was postal orders for a few shillings, but as his success grew, this increased to fivers and latterly big sums.
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During World War I and World War II, the British government declared postal orders legal tender as cash to save paper and labour.
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This has made British postal orders similar to the money orders issued by post offices in the United States and many other countries.
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After the outbreak of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, which paved the way for the secession of East Pakistan and the independence of Bangladesh, it was decided to overprint the stocks of Pakistani postal orders that were in the post offices and issue them. The most common ways of overprinting the postal orders was with rubber handstamps with 'BANGLADESH' in either Bengali or English, and crossing out the name 'PAKISTAN' with a ball point pen, and writing 'BANGLADESH' or an abbreviation, most commonly 'B'DESH'. A stock of Pakistani pre-decimal postal orders had turned up. These were also overprinted.
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Irish 9 shilling postal order uprated with additional stamp used in 1969. Used postal orders are seldom seen because most were destroyed when they were redeemed or cashed at the post office or bank The postal order is a direct descendant of the money order, which had been established by a private company in 1792. During World War I and World War II, British postal orders were temporarily declared legal tender to save paper and labour. Postal orders can be bought and redeemed at post offices in the UK, although a crossed postal order must be paid into a bank account.
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Postal order collecting has become a branch of notaphily, especially in England since the 1980s. Some countries, such as Basutoland, the British Somaliland Protectorate, and Northern Rhodesia never issued their own banknotes, however, they did issue their own postal orders. Great Britain, the Isle of Man, and Northern Ireland also issued Old Age Pension Orders as well as postal orders. These have become collectible in recent years.
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In April and May 2001, it was reported that the issue of Irish postal orders was to end just before the change over to the euro. A date in July 2001 was planned for their withdrawal, then 1 October 2001 and 18 October 2001, but nothing happened. On 31 October 2001, An Post began to withdraw postal orders from all the sub-post offices.
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The large post offices and head post offices continued to issue postal orders for around two or three weeks after 31 October 2001. This was due to a dispute between An Post and the Post & Telegraph Union of Ireland. So the unofficial last days of issue are between 1 and 22 November 2001. Postal orders issued in this period are sought after by collectors.
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South Africa began issuing its own postal orders sometime during 1933. They are denominated in both Afrikaans and English. It is not yet known what the smallest denomination is in the pre-decimal issue, but after the change over to decimal currency on 14 February 1961, there was a postal order for denominations as low as 1 cent. South African postal orders issued as late as 1997 have been confirmed.
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These were issued from 31 May 1910. Some of the pre-decimal issues were overprinted 'UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA'. From 14 February 1961 to 30 May 1961, British postal orders were overprinted 'UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA' with denominations and poundages in cents and rand. For a short period from 31 May 1961, the decimal postal orders of the Union of South Africa were additionally overprinted 'REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA'.
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According to Harry Hawkes, when Donald Neilson was first caught in Mansfield, his wife Irene became worried when he failed to return home. Irene burned around fifty postal orders in their coal fire. Police noticed the charred remains within the chimney when the house was later searched. Irene Neilson was later convicted of cashing over eighty stolen postal orders stolen in one of her husband's post office raids.
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The issue of the first native Irish Free State postal orders began in September 1927. The design of these included a harp surrounded by the inscription inside a box giving the poundage in both Irish and English. The field of the postal orders was bilingually inscribed in Irish and English. The words 'not negotiable' were rendered in Irish as ' (the dialect that this comes from is not known).
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The main aim of the Postal Order Society is to promote the study of postal orders, postal notes, money orders and related items. The Society is a member of the UK-based Association of British Philatelic Societies (ABPS) and the American Philatelic Society. Meetings are held annually in London at the IBNS venue. Very few members collect only postal orders, but usually add them to their philatelic or banknote collections.
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The designs include a building at the bottom. The names of post offices and county names in English printed on the postal orders appeared for the first time.
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Postal orders were a service provided by the Canadian Post Office, and was a method of transferring funds between 1898 and 1 April 1949. Postal orders have been issued by the Canadian Post Office roughly since confederation (the timeline linked to below, for example, cites the postal money order system as expanding to Manitoba in July 1873). Money orders were issue for values up to $100, while postal notes (introduced 4 August 1898) were for sending small sums between 10¢ and $5. Canadian postal orders and notes were not issued in Newfoundland, as Newfoundland was an independent dominion, and a British colony, before it became a Canadian province, although Canadian postal notes were allowed to be paid in Newfoundland.
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Postal orders of the Orange Free State were introduced on 1 January 1898. They came in a range of denominations from 1 Shilling to 1 Pond. The Orange Free State's postal orders were known in Afrikaans as Post Noot (or Postal Note). The Orange Free State postal notes are inscribed in Afrikaans, even though the Orange Free State's name is given in the Dutch spelling - 'ORANJE VRIJ STAAT', which also appears in the watermark.
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Some companies have issued promotional postal orders (PPO) with the permission of Royal Mail as part of their promotions. Such companies include Reader's Digest and Cinzano. These postal orders are classified in a sub-group of their own. They were all issued throughout Great Britain, with one notable exception, the Fife Council PPOs, only issued in Fife, Scotland, which were used to pay for shopping at the stores that were part of the scheme.
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Postal Orders issued by BFPOs are sought after by collectors because many BFPOs are only open for a short time and access to them may be restricted to military personnel.
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The migratory periods during the 20th Century were very profitable periods for the Barbados Post with records showing that in the 1950s, British postal orders paid to Barbadians exceeded $3 million.
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A British postal order overprinted for use in Southern Nigeria Five-shilling British postal order overprinted for use in Nigeria used in 1947 - 3d additional poundage to be paid in Nigeria The first Postal orders of Nigeria were issued by the British colonial authorities. Later, Nigeria issued its own postal orders, first in £,s,d, and then in the new currency of the Naira. In 2018, the postal order system was replaced by a cheaper money order system.
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Postal orders were prepared for, but not issued, by the Indian Field Force in Egypt in between 1883 and 1885. Only five extant examples of these unissued postal orders are recorded, all of the 1 Rupee denomination. These bear the serial numbers 00092, 00094, 00210, 00235, and 00238. These are very similar to the Indian postal order issues of 1883-86, which have the British Coat-of- Arms at the top, but are inscribed 'Head Post Master, Indian Field Force, Egypt'.
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The South African Postal Union Convention was signed during 1897, and came into effect on 1 January 1898. The intention of the Convention was to allow the payment of postal orders between the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, the Orange Free State, and the South African Republic. The paying entity was required to repatriate the postal orders back to the issuing British colony or Boer republics. The Convention lapsed in late 1899, due to the outbreak of the Second Boer War.
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One of the services that is provided by some of the British Forces Post Offices is the issuing and cashing of postal orders. A British postal order issued at a forces post office is very sought after by collectors of postal orders. A postal order issued by a BFPO in a Commonwealth country, such as the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus, is regarded as being a part of the numismatic and notaphilic history of that country.
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One of the most famous postal orders in history - the one alleged to have been cashed by George Archer-Shee. The United Kingdom was the first country in the world to issue postal orders on 1 January 1881. They were the brainchild of the president of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, John Skirrow Wright which was to enable poorer people to buy goods and services by post, as they were unlikely to have bank accounts. The rich had bank accounts and could write cheques.
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As of 2012, South Africa still uses postal orders. These postal orders are issued by the South African Post Office The South African postal order system is still used as a secure way of sending money to a company or organization. Despite the postal order system still being present, it is mostly used for the less technologically equipped citizens or for those who do not have access to cheque or EFT facilities. Some South African government departments still use the system in place of EFT, for example the South African Council of Educators (SACE).
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2 Naira Nigerian postal order of 1987 Nigeria became independent from Britain on 1 October 1960 and after then began to issue postal orders in its own right denominated in Nigerian pounds, shillings, and pence, although records at the British Library indicate that these were at first supplied by Britain's Crown Agents. A number of proof Nigerian postal orders dated 1964 and 1965 are contained in the Crown Agents Archive of the British Library Philatelic Collection.Martin, Jeremy, & John Powell. (2010) West Africa in the British Library Philatelic Collections.
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Dronfield: West Africa Study Circle. pp. 106-107. New postal orders were issued in 1973, when Nigeria changed over to the decimal currency of the Naira. In 1987, Nipost was charged with providing postal order services within Nigeria under Act No. 18 of that year. In late 2018, Nipost replaced the disused postal order service with a domestic electronic Money Order whose commission is less than the postal orders and can be obtained at any post office or sub-post office enabling rural and urban communities to transfer money easily.
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Malaysian postal orders were issued in Brunei as late as 1988, but it is not known when these issues began nor when they ended. Extant examples issued at the post office in Bandar Seri Begawan have been confirmed.
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Postal orders were issued in Ireland from 1881 until they were discontinued in late 2001 just before the change over to the euro. The current alternative is the An Post Postal Money Order which serves an equivalent purpose.
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Bangladeshi postal orders are not easy to collect, as the postmark datestamps are usually not inscribed in English. The denominations, which are in Poisha and Taka are easy to read, but the poundages are not, unless one can read Bengali.
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These began to be issued on 18 April 1980. They were issued as late as 1982, including some of the dual-currency issue. It is not yet known when these were exhausted and replaced by the postal orders of Zimbabwe.
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In 1986–87, an entirely new series of postal orders was issued. These bear Celtic designs, which are derived from designs in the Book of Kells. There was a noticeable white margin adjacent to the counterfoil. The denominations were expressed in IR£.
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Like the first two series, this series was also a series of overprinted British postal orders. The overprinted inscription on the king's portrait was changed to ('Irish Free State 1922'). The issue of this series began in January 1924 and ended in January 1928.
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These began to be issued on 18 April 1980, when the British colony of Rhodesia became independent as the Republic of Zimbabwe. Examples of these postal orders have been confirmed as having been issued in 1982, but it is not yet known when these were exhausted.
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The South African Republic was the first country, along with the Orange Free State, to declare postal orders to be legal tender as an emergency currency. All denominations, except the 1/6, were allowed to circulate. This was done to save on both paper and labour.
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The Orange Free State and the South African Republic were the first countries in the world to declare postal orders to be legal tender as an emergency currency. At this time, it is currently difficult to distinguish between the currency issues and the normal postal notes.
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A New Zealand 20 shillings postal note of 1952 The use of postal orders (or postal notes in some countries) was extended to most countries that are now part of the British Commonwealth of Nations, plus to a few foreign countries such as Jordan, Egypt and Thailand.
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During the fighting Private Tuffin and Goble of the Army Post Office Corps were killed and the remaining APOC men were taken prisoner. After the surrender the mail bags were looted by the Boers. Stock (postage stamps, postal orders etc. ) valued at £5099 0s 41/2d were stolen.
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The most common postal notes that turn up are the ones that have been cashed within the Orange Free State prior to 1 September 1899. The Orange Free State's postal notes were allowed to be paid in the South African Republic and in the two British colonies (Cape of Good Hope and Natal) as well. The postal notes and postal orders of the other three entities were also allowed to be paid in the Orange Free State under the terms of the South African Postal Union Convention (which came into effect on 1 January 1898), but the postal notes and the postal orders had to be repatriated back to the issuing entity after being cashed.
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For monies, that is cash (coin and banknotes) and banking instruments (cheques, money orders, promissory notes and postal orders), seizure can occur through the diligence of money attachment.Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007 s.175. The rules for money attachment are found in the Diligence and Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2007.
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These were issued after the majority of the dual-currency issue was exhausted. It is not yet known when these began to be issued. The last day of issue was 17 April 1980. The postal orders issued between 12 December 1979 and 17 April 1980 are quite sought after by postal order collectors.
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Because Ireland decimalised the currency from the old currency of £.s.d. to the new currency of £.p. on the same day as in Great Britain (15 February 1971), a new issue of postal orders was necessary. The harp design of the pre-decimal issue was retained, but the values were expressed in £.p.
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The written records include requisition books for colonial government orders, circa 1921 to 1968, plate issue books for a similar period, and paper issue records from 1940 to the late 1960s. The Archive contains examples of postal stationery, including postal orders and paper money printed in the United Kingdom mainly for British Commonwealth countries.
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The Electronic Indian Postal Order (e-IPO) was introduced on 22 March 2013, initially only for citizens living abroad. The postal orders can be used for online payment of fees for access to information under the Right to Information Act, 2005. The service was expanded to include all Indian citizens on 14 February 2014.
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In a British “Post Office Circular” of 24 October 1916, an announcement was made about a temporary issue: OLD AGE PENSIONS Additional Allowances Payment of arrears of additional allowances will be made by means of Postal Orders overprinted or stamped “Old Age Pensions, Additional Allowance.” The orders used will be of the following values:-6d., 1s., 2s., 2s.6d.
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The Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company Limited Plc is the Nigerian banknote printer and mint. It is located in both Abuja and Lagos and is majority-owned by the government of Nigeria.NSPM, Structure In addition to printing the banknotes and the postal orders of Nigeria, it has struck some of the coins of Nigeria. It also prints stamps.
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By 1930, Moores had become a millionaire from the competition. In April 1929, Moores was prosecuted under the Ready Money Betting Act 1920. Following a court appearance, he was convicted. However, as his company never accepted cash, only postal orders that were cashed after the football results and the winning payout had been confirmed, his appeal was upheld.
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These were of the same design as the early pre-decimal republican ones, but the Irish for 'not negotiable' was changed again to read as . shilling postal order with additional postage stamp used in 1969. Used postal orders are seldom seen because most were destroyed when they were redeemed or cashed at a post office or bank.
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A batch of 2/6 postal orders was printed in 1965–69 with the old Órdú Puist Éireannach and inscriptions, which had ceased to be issued in the early 1950s. These are very sought after by postal order collectors in both Ireland and overseas. These were issued in several post offices in different parts of Ireland.
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The final series of postal orders began on 27 and 28 August 1997 with the same Celtic design format with a building at the bottom. The denominations are expressed with the value in bold black numerals and words on both the building and at left adjacent to the counterfoil below the post office and county names.
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Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007 s.178(4). The court officer must deposit any cash attached (ie: seized) in a bank account.Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007 s.178(5). A court officer is entitled to not attach banking instruments other than cheques (ie: money orders, promissory notes and postal orders) unless expressly instructed by the creditor.Bankruptcy and Diligence etc.
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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. The story was loosely based on the real-life George Archer-Shee case. Postal orders were also referenced by W. H. Auden in the opening words of Night Mail (1936).
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Postal orders are currently issued in Gibraltar by the Royal Gibraltar Post Office. In accordance with the Postal Order Regulations of 1961, postal orders may be issued for the following sums: #The sum of 50 pence; and #The sum of one pound and any multiple of one pound up to ten pounds The value of a postal order may be increased by affixing postage stamps not exceeding two in number and not exceeding a total of 49 pence or the equivalent in coinage of the country in which the order is issued. Any such stamp may either be a stamp authorized or required to be used for the purpose of the post office or, if the postal administration of the country in which the order is issued so allows, a current stamp for denoting a rate of postage of that country, but no other stamps may be used. A charge for poundage is applied according to the rates applicable when the order is issued.
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These are regarded by collectors of the postal orders of the Commonwealth of Nations as being worth slightly more than the same item paid within the Orange Free State. It also depends on both the place of issue and the place of encashment. The most difficult of the postal notes to get is the 1 Pond, as there would have been far fewer of the 1 Pond postal notes sold than any other denomination.
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He broke the discharge the following July when he was caught stealing clothes. He was sent to prison for two years and three months and was released in February 1957. Soon afterwards he broke into a sub-post office and blew open a safe to steal £8,260 of money and postal orders; in March 1958 he was sentenced to six years imprisonment. After serving four and a half years in Dartmoor Prison, he was released in October 1962.
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Dwyer, with aspirations of travel and adventure, went to Melbourne with his friend Joseph Miller, a boilermaker, intending to make money taking bets on the Caulfield Cup. He ended up £30 pounds in debt, and desperately in need of money to pay his creditors. He proposed a scheme to Miller, though Miller confided the plan to a friend who then informed the police. In April 1899, police apprehended Miller, and found 22 fraudulent postal orders for £10 in his pockets.
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The church is a Grade I listed building. Brass rubbing of Sir Roger de Trumpington The church is the resting place of Henry Fawcett, the blind academic and politician who, as Postmaster General (1880–84), introduced parcel post, postal orders and other innovations. The primary school is named Fawcett School after him. The church also contains the monumental brass of Sir Roger de Trumpington, a crusader knight bearing the date 1289; it is said to be the second oldest brass in England.
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1980 use of postal order 1st decimal issue denominated 15p (decimal currency at right) but the poundage of 4 1/2 pence (pre-decimal currency at left) has been excised. However, when Ireland joined the European Monetary System from 13 March 1979 it was no longer possible to cash Irish postal orders in the United Kingdom and visa- versa as had been the case, because the currencies were no longer at parity and the British post office did not do currency work.
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However, as his company never accepted cash, only postal orders that were cashed after the football results and the winning payout had been confirmed, his appeal was upheld. In 1928, Cecil Moores devised a security system to prevent cheating. The breakthrough came when the owner of the coupon printing company Arthur Bottomes suggested that he took his exact expenses out (plus a bit extra) before calculating the winning payout. Eventually the pools took off, becoming one of the best-known names in Britain.
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Freedman also designed Jubilee postal orders, in various values from sixpence to £1."Bigger stamps for Jubilee", Dundee Courier, 24 April 1935. Freedman was now recognised as a force in autolithographic printmaking, and his down-to- earth attitude and lack of pretension made him welcome among the craftsmen at the Curwen Press, the Baynard Press and Chromoworks, the leading firms in the industry. For the Baynard Press, he also designed the Baynard Claudia typeface, which he named after his wife, Beatrice Claudia Guercio.
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Many of the stamps in the Collection are further identified by a date showing when they were received by the Colonial Office. As well as postcards, embossed envelopes and newspaper wrappers there are registered envelopes, air letter forms, reply postcards, and examples of paper money and postal orders. Many items are annotated with the date of receipt by the Colonial Office. The collection consist of three ledgers into which stamps have been stuck down, preventing the examination of watermarks, and a further 36 boxes of postal stationery.
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This gave Lieutenant Colonel du Plat Taylor the opportunity to raise the matter of the postal corps again and it was agreed that an Army Post Office Corps (APOC) should be formed. Mails from Britain were despatched three times a week via the 'overland route' through France to Alexandria. The Army Post Offices offered a letter and parcel service and sold stamps and postal orders. In addition to the mail services, a free parcel service from the naval docks at Deptford was also set up.
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One of the most famous postal orders in history: the one alleged to have been cashed by George Archer-Shee A postal order, postal note or money order is a financial instrument usually intended for sending money through the mail. It is purchased at a post office and is payable at another post office to the named recipient. A small fee for the service, known as poundage, is paid by the purchaser. In the United States, this is known as a postal money order.
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James Francis Dwyer (22 April 1874 – 11 November 1952) was an Australian writer. Born in Camden Park, New South Wales, Dwyer worked as a postal assistant until he was convicted in a scheme to make fraudulent postal orders and sentenced to seven years imprisonment in 1899. In prison, Dwyer began writing, and with the help of another inmate and a prison guard, had his work published in The Bulletin. After completing his sentence, he relocated to London and then New York, where he established a successful career as a writer of short stories and novels.
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Miller confessed, saying that Dwyer was the mastermind of a scheme to make 65 fraudulent orders and cash them at suburban post offices. Miller also recruited printer Frederick Peter Craig to print the postal orders. Dwyer told police that Miller was lying and was trying to set him up, though the evidence against Dwyer was strong. His handwriting was matched to that on the postal notes and envelopes, and he had previously warned his superiors about the possibility of such a scheme in an attempt to impress them.
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The banknote sorter was followed by machines for sorting and reading luncheon vouchers, postal orders and lottery tickets and for counting and dispensing banknotes. In 1966 Crosfield spun this new division off as Crosfield Business Machines, with its own management, offices, production and research in Watford. New equipment, built first for Nord West Lotto in Germany, coupled to small computers automatically printed out a list of prize winners and the weekly profit and tax liability for the lottery. Simultaneously a high-speed camera made a microfilm of the coupons as a security check.
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Despite competition from cheques and electronic funds transfer, postal orders continue to appeal to customers, especially as a form of payment for shopping on the Internet, as they are drawn on the Post Office's accounts so a vendor can be certain that they will not bounce. They also enable those without a bank account, including minors, to make small financial transactions without the need for cash. Postal workers in the United Kingdom use voided or cancelled orders in their training."Another view" by Douglas Myall in British Philatelic Bulletin, Vol.
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As a reaction to commonplace opening of letters by the royal authorities, an oath of confidentiality became compulsory for post employees in 1790. The first French mail coach appeared in 1793 and the first telegram in the world was delivered in 1794 with the Chappe optical transmitter on the Paris-Lille line. After the Revolution, French postal services continued their modernisation. An 1801 decree reasserted the state monopoly on mail delivery, postal orders were created in 1817 and postage stamps were introduced in 1849, nine years after they were invented in the United Kingdom.
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As Percy Leonard Carol Redwood, an affluent Canterbury sheep farmer, Bock holidayed at Port Molyneux on the South Otago coast, where "Percy" wooed Agnes Ottaway, the daughter of the landlady. Bock maintained her male impersonation through adept use of letters purported to be from lawyers, postal orders and small loans. "Percy" and Agnes even married on 21 April 1909, but it was not to last as the "groom" was arrested at "his" mother-in-law's hotel, 3 days after the wedding. It was at the time of the arrest when Agnes discovered the secret behind "Percy".
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Pertwee moved to Hollywood, where he wrote I Like Your Nerve (1931), and Honor of the Family (1931). He also wrote a story for Marilyn Miller that was not used. A play The Metropolitan Players had a run on Broadway in 1932. Back in England he wrote Murder on the Second Floor (1932); Love Me, Love My Dog (1932); Postal Orders (1932); Impromptu (1932); Help Yourself (1932); A Voice Said Goodnight (1932); A Letter of Warning (1932); The Silver Greyhound(1932); Illegal (1932); Blind Spot (1932); Sleeping Car (1933), for Anatole Litvak; The Ghoul (1933) with Boris Karloff and The Crucifix (1934).
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Major George Charles Sturgeon, Army Post Office Corps On 8 August 1882 the new Corps under the command of Major Sturgeon (Army Postmaster) embarked aboard the Black Prince on its first overseas expedition, only 17 days after its formation, and landed at Alexandra on 19 August. Mails from Britain were despatched 3 times a week via the 'overland route' through France to Alexandria. The Army Post Offices offered a letter and parcel service and sold stamps and postal orders. In addition to the mail services, a free parcel service from the Naval docks at Deptford was also set up.
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The Director of Army Telegraphs for the Expedition was Major CE Webber RE, who had been an original member of du Plat Taylor's 1877 Committee. The Field Post Offices offered letter and parcel services, sold stamps and postal orders. Major Sturgeon introduced the sale of embossed envelopes with a sheet of note paper at 1d or two at 1d. This was the first recorded time that stationery had been sold at Army Post Offices, and can be regarded as the forerunner to the Field Service Post Card (Army Form A2042) used in the First World War.
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He had a particular interest in encouraging saving through the Post Office Savings Bank. He introduced the savings stamp which allowed people to save pennies at a time to build up the minimum account limit of a shilling. He pushed through parliament an act to allow savers to convert their post office savings to government stock and he developed the post office's life insurance and annuities schemes.Archibald Grainger Bowie The Romance of the Savings Banks 1898 SW Partridge & Co He introduced many other innovations, including parcel post, postal orders, and licensing changes to permit payphones and trunk lines.
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Argos in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, Argos is the largest catalogue retailer in the United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom, the sole national general goods catalogue merchant left in the high street market is Argos. Former catalogue retailers include Littlewoods, which owned the 'Index' brand as a high street competitor to Argos and Kays, which unlike Argos and Littlewoods/Index had no shops and sold only by postal orders. Littlewoods, Kays and existing Grattan built their businesses around offering credit, however in the 21st century most High Street shops now offer store cards (a means of credit specific to the retailer) meaning these catalogues have lost some of their market niche.
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Immediately on the outbreak of war members of the RE (PS) were mobilised and advance parties of the Postal units, under the command of Colonel W Roberts the Assistant Director Army Postal Services (ADAPS) BEF, were sent to France with their formations. By mid September 1939 a Base Army Post Office (Base APO) was established at Cherbourg and a Regulating Section was set up at the BEF Assembly Area in Le Mans. Army Post Offices (APOs) were deployed along the lines of communications and FPOs with their respective formations. The APS provided mail collection and distribution facilities, sold stamps, postal orders and postal stationary, as well as, providing a Telegram service.
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In September 1900, due to the shipment delay of the new issue of the "flying Hermes" by the English printer J.P. Segg & C°, the Greek postal administration decided to reuse the old stocks on the anterior issues, including those of the "large Hermes head" (these overprints also exist on the "Olympic 1896" and on the "small Hermes head" issues). They are overprinted "AM", in black, for "Αξια Μεταλλικη" ("Metal Value") and with values in drachms. The usage of these stamps was reserved to the postal parcels and to postal orders ("mandats") and were paid in "gold drachm". They are really very rare on non-philatelic documents.
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The severity of his crimes increased over time and, in March 1958, he was sentenced to six years' imprisonment after using explosives to open a safe and steal £8,260 in money and postal orders. On his release he opened a strip club in Soho, the centre of London's sex industry. As Humphreys expanded his business and moved into other areas of the sex industry—sex shops and book shops selling obscene material—he had to bribe an increasing number of policemen to be able to operate. In January 1972 Humphreys and his wife, Rusty, took Ken Drury—the head of the Flying Squad—and his wife on holiday to Cyprus and Beirut.
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Many of the dockers faced financial hardship during the course of the dispute, with more than 90 dockers' homes under repossession orders by 1997. Donations were received from the public through postal orders or money in envelopes, sometimes anonymously, as well as having grocery shopping paid for or donated to a doorstep. An 84-year-old former miner's wife turned up at the picket line in late 1997, offering savings left to her by her late husband to help towards the hardship fund. By the end of 1997, dockers' families faced unmanageable financial circumstances, with the weekly £12 union payments inadequate (an official strike would have warranted a payment three times that amount).
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Stamps used for training postal workers in the United Kingdom are usually normal postage or other stamps, including television license and national insurance stamps (when they were in use), obliterated with two vertical or horizontal bars to prevent genuine use, though other forms of cancellation have been used such as overprinting or rubber stamps. They have frequently found their way into the hands of collectors. Early examples were properly printed with bars but more recent examples tend to simply be crossed through with a black marker pen. A range of cancelled or voided paper money, cheques, postal orders, credit cards and horizon labels are also used to train workers which takes place at counter training schools (CTOs).
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A delegation of the Birmingham Chamber went to the annual meeting of chambers of commerce in London and John Skirrow Wright presented the idea, complete with all the details on how it would work including all the postal order values proposed. At first London bankers were against the idea, thinking it would affect their businesses, and the idea was rejected. However, eventually, the bankers realised that the people who would use postal orders were not their customers and therefore no threat to their business. Consequently, at the Annual Meeting a year later John Skirrow Wright presented the idea again and this time it was accepted and the postal order system was started exactly as Skirrow Wright and Birmingham Chamber had proposed.
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Not all of these men could be billeted on Birtley, so it was agreed to build a village alongside the factory, to be administered, like the factory, by a Belgian Head of Village, in this case a military man, Captain Algrain, with a British counterpart, a civilian called Mr A E Prowse. The Colony (as the Belgians called it) was laid out somewhat on the lines of a garden city with broad streets and open spaces and was provided with a grocer and butcher, several other shops based in people’s homes; a Roman Catholic church; a 100-bed hospital; a laundry and bathhouse. There was also a school for about 600 pupils. There was a sovereign British Sub-Post Office, on sovereign Belgian soil, selling British stamps and postal orders, etc.
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Although situated adjacent to the Mealsgate branch railway, the residents were unable to secure an independent station and were forced to walk along the railway track to Aspatria station and vice versa to use the facility. When, in 1893, the Maryport and Carlisle Railway Company outlawed this custom the villagers had to take the 1.5-mile route via Aspatria. Despite several petitions and the support of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, the then chairman of the company, they could not alter this ruling. The village had no access to a postal dispatch box. In 1919 they presented a petition to the Post Master-General seeking the establishment of a sub post office; notwithstanding Aspatria having two such facilities, residents at Harriston had to continue buying their stamps and postal orders from the delivery postman.West Cumberland Times, 17 May 1919 However improvements gradually began to appear.
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All this time we carried with > us our cumbersome cash box which was our stock of several hundred pounds > worth of stamps and Postal Orders...Cheerfully we attached ourselves to a > crowd of RE's who were forming their own company into several parties of > fifty. Sapper Turver was successfully evacuated, as was Colonel Roberts and his Postal Directorate, but on his arrival in Dover Roberts was immediately ordered back to Cherbourg to organise the evacuation of the rear area Postal units and any outstanding mails. Meanwhile, British troops left on French soil west of the river Seine had their own problems, Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) E G Hucker RE, OC 2nd Line of Communications (L of C) Postal Unit RE, was among them and kept a private diary (held in the RE Library). His entries for 9–10 June 1940 give some insight into the confusion that reigned immediately after the fall of Dunkirk, he recorded: > Sunday 9 June 1940: ...Trucks of inward (UK) mails (285 bags) received at > station [Lisieux] and dealt with.
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We were > immediately marched off to the Boer laager ... The work of destruction on > the Station then commenced. The Station-Master was apparently in league with > the enemy as they allowed him to take all his furniture etc to a place of > safety on the veldt before starting to blow up the place ... On the > following day we were marched off pass Rhenoster [the scene of the Derby's > disaster] to a position on De Wet's farm a distance of 9 miles. We stayed in > this place for the night and the following day 9 June Mr Preece was taken > suddenly ill and was removed to the Yeomanry Hospital. I had hopes of being > taken also but no opportunity occurred (there being no transport) so I had > to trudge on with the others for about 8 miles the next day... Chapman was finally released in Kroonstad on 25 June after being held captive for 17 days. The others were released in August 1900. As late as 1909 attempts were made in Britain to cash postal orders looted from the station and when De Wet's house was search in 1914 over 3,000 unused British stamps, souvenirs of the attack, were found there.
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