What (who) is postal order - definition
Postal order
TYPE OF MONEY ORDER ISSUED BY A POST OFFICE
Postal order (version 2); Postal Orders of Christmas Island (Pacific Ocean); Postal notes; Postal note; Postal Orders; Canteen order; Postal Order
A postal order or postal note is a type of money order 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.
postal order
TYPE OF MONEY ORDER ISSUED BY A POST OFFICE
Postal order (version 2); Postal Orders of Christmas Island (Pacific Ocean); Postal notes; Postal note; Postal Orders; Canteen order; Postal Order
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A postal order is a piece of paper representing a sum of money which you can buy at a post office and send to someone as a way of sending them money by post. (BRIT; in AM, usually use money order
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postal order
TYPE OF MONEY ORDER ISSUED BY A POST OFFICE
Postal order (version 2); Postal Orders of Christmas Island (Pacific Ocean); Postal notes; Postal note; Postal Orders; Canteen order; Postal Order
¦ noun Brit. an order for payment of a specified sum to a named payee, issued by the Post Office.
Examples of use of postal order
1. Common payment methods include cheque, postal order, or the online payment system PayPal.
2. Blinded at 25 in a shooting accident, he rose to be postmaster–general and is credited with introducing parcel post and the postal order.
3. DONATE ONLINE NOW BY CLICKING HERE Or, send a cheque or postal order made payable to The Armed Forces Memorial Trust to the following address: Daily Mail Armed Forces Memorial Appeal, PO Box 158, Aldershot, Hants GU11 'GW.
4. How to claim your pearl and diamond earrings To claim, simply collect 20 tokens from those that will be printed from Saturday 22 April until Friday, 1' May 2006 in the Daily Mail, along with a cheque or postal order for 4.'' incl p&p.
5. See more ... Two choc–ices and a postal order, please Post office closures ‘threaten rural services‘ Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling said there had to be a reduction in the size of the network to reflect the dip in business and losses of 4 million a week, up from 2 million a year ago.