Postal Order

Cartels wash their cash in myriad ways, from postal-order and credit-card frauds to old standbys like padded construction contracts. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Remittances should be by registered letter, or by check, express-order, or postal-order, payable to THE GREAT ROUND WORLD PUBLISHING CO. ❋ Various (N/A)

I enclose a postal-order for sixpence, to see you through the rest of the term. ❋ Unknown (1919)

B---- is thinking of a postal-order that he has not been able to change or get changed; nobody will part with his silver, still less with his gold. ❋ Felix, Klein (1915)

You possess your grandmother's pound in a postal-order and assorted coins to the amount of seven and sixpence, total one pound seven and six, to pay for a bicycle costing five pounds seventeen and sixpence. ❋ Various (1898)

"And Grandma sent me a pound this morning in a postal-order." ❋ Various (1898)

So far was Eliza's mother from being offended that she sent Eliza a present of a postal-order for five shillings, three pounds of pressed beef, and a nicely worked apron. ❋ Barry Pain (1896)

A stamp, a card, a newspaper wrapper, a postal-order, a letter to be registered -- anything but an honest purchase across the counter or the blessed tendering of a prescription to make up. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

How could he enclose a postal-order in a telegram? ❋ Henry James (1879)

After asking for the stamps he asked, quite as a second thought, for a postal-order for ten shillings. ❋ Henry James (1879)

Some of us look forward to a new volume of Pevsner as we once did a birthday postal-order. ❋ Christopher Howse (2011)

‘Read your letter and then trot along to the village post-office and cash your postal-order. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 (1964)