Sentence examples for postal order from inspiring English sources

"postal order" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to a payment method in which the sender purchases a money order from the post office and sends it via mail to the recipient. Example: I forgot to bring cash, so I'll have to send a postal order for the payment instead.

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postal order

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A money order issued by, and redeemable at, a post office.

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A pensioner sent a small weekly postal order.

It begins: "This is the night mail crossing the border, bringing the cheque and the postal order".

A postal order sent to the Banque Boutin, Dinard, France, or to me personally, is all that is necessary.

Neither goes for its clinkety-clonk prosody ("This is the night mail crossing the border / Bringing the cheque and the postal order").

Callcredit has a form on callcredit.co.uk which you can print, fill in and send with a £2 cheque or postal order.

You can pay by cheque or postal order if you apply via the paper application form, which is available at Lloyds TSB branches up and down the country.

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Other cash transactions include postal orders and buying travellers' cheques".

I used postal orders and that mailing list on the last page of each paperback.

The force accepts cheques, British postal orders and international bankers drafts made payable to The Metropolitan Police Authority.

But her first marriage in 1927 was undistinguished, to Sachie McCorquodale, of Cound Hall, Shropshire, who had the government contract to print postal orders.

Then came the wonderfully eccentric Johnny Swanson, a standalone title set in 1929 about a boy who makes money from people gullible enough to send postal orders in response to his personal ads.

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