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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aidan Work, post: 29152, member: 1824&quot;]Postal Orders &amp; Postal Notes are an area of numismatics that is gaining in popularity,especially among collectors in British Commonwealth countries as well as within Great Britain itself.Postal orders were used as</p><p>a legal tender emergency currency by the Orange Free State &amp; the South African Republic.Great Britain followed suit by declaring Postal Orders to be legal tender in 1914 during World War I to save on paper &amp;</p><p>labour.The same act was repeated during World War II in Great Britain.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a list of the British Commonwealth countries that issued postal orders;</p><p><br /></p><p>Aden.</p><p>Anguilla.</p><p>Antigua.</p><p>Australia.</p><p>Bahamas.</p><p>Bangladesh.</p><p>Barbados.</p><p>Bechuanaland Protectorate.</p><p>Bermuda.</p><p>Bophuthatswana.</p><p>Botswana.</p><p>British Army of the Rhine.</p><p>British Central Africa Protectorate.</p><p>British Consulate Post Offices in Morocco.</p><p>British Guiana.</p><p>British Honduras.</p><p>British North Borneo.</p><p>British Solomon Islands.</p><p>British Virgin Islands.</p><p>Brunei.</p><p>Burma.(up to and including the 3rd of January 1948).</p><p>Canada.</p><p>Cape of Good Hope (Cape Colony).</p><p>Ceylon.</p><p>Ciskei.</p><p>Cyprus.</p><p>Dominica.</p><p>East Africa.</p><p>Falkland Islands.</p><p>Fiji.</p><p>Gambia.</p><p>Ghana.</p><p>Gibraltar.</p><p>Gilbert &amp; Ellice Islands.</p><p>Gold Coast.</p><p>Great Britain.</p><p>Grenada.</p><p>Guyana.</p><p>Hong Kong.</p><p>India.</p><p>The following Indian Princely States had their own Postal Orders;</p><p>Gwalior.</p><p>Jhind.</p><p>&amp; Patiala.</p><p>Indian Field Force in Egypt.</p><p>Ireland.</p><p>Jamaica.</p><p>Kenya.</p><p>Lagos.</p><p>Lesotho.</p><p>Malawi.</p><p>Malaya.</p><p>Malaysia.</p><p>Malta.</p><p>Mauritius.</p><p>Montserrat.</p><p>Namibia.</p><p>Natal.</p><p>New Guinea.</p><p>New South Wales.</p><p>New Zealand.</p><p>Nigeria.</p><p>Northern Rhodesia.</p><p>Nyasaland.</p><p>Orange Free State.</p><p>Orange River Colony.</p><p>Pakistan.</p><p>Papua.</p><p>Papua New Guinea.</p><p>Pitcairn Islands.</p><p>Queensland.</p><p>Rhodesia.</p><p>Rhodesia &amp; Nyasaland.</p><p>St. Helena.</p><p>St. Kitts - Nevis.</p><p>St. Lucia.</p><p>St. Vincent.</p><p>Seychelles.</p><p>Sierra Leone.</p><p>Singapore.</p><p>South Africa.</p><p>South African Republic.</p><p>South Australia.</p><p>South West Africa.</p><p>Southern Nigeria.</p><p>Southern Rhodesia.</p><p>Sri Lanka.</p><p>Straits Settlements.</p><p>Swaziland.</p><p>Tanganyika.</p><p>Tanzania.</p><p>Tasmania.</p><p>Tonga.</p><p>Transkei.</p><p>Transvaal.</p><p>Trinidad.</p><p>Trinidad &amp; Tobago.</p><p>Tristan da Cunha.</p><p>Turks &amp; Caicos Islands.</p><p>Uganda.</p><p>Venda.</p><p>Victoria.</p><p>Western Australia.</p><p>Zambia.</p><p>Zimbabwe.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remainder issues exist for Bophuthatswana,Ciskei,Transkei,&amp; Venda.</p><p>These 4 entities (Bantustans) were reincorporated into South Africa,27</p><p>April 1994.A remainder issue also exists for Rhodesia,which gained independence as Zimbabwe,17th of April 1980.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to find out which countries still issue British Postal Orders from their local Post Offices,please visit the following website;</p><p><a href="http://www.maltapost.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.maltapost.com" rel="nofollow">www.maltapost.com</a> &amp; type in &#039;British Postal Order&#039; &amp; click on &#039;go&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Further information about postal orders can be seen here;</p><p><a href="http://www.ramadan.co.uk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ramadan.co.uk" rel="nofollow">www.ramadan.co.uk</a> .</p><p><br /></p><p>You can see a dealer&#039;s listing at <a href="http://www.kronestamps.dk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.kronestamps.dk" rel="nofollow">www.kronestamps.dk</a> .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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