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postal note

British  

noun

  1. the usual name for postal order

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The teacher should obtain envelopes of registered letters and a registration blank, a blank money order, and a blank postal note, and instruct the pupils in the proper method of filling out these forms.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: History by Ontario. Ministry of Education

It can be obtained by sending to The R. Paxton Company, 221 Columbus Ave., Boston, Mass. Price $1.75, postpaid—registered letter or postal note.

From Treatise on the Diseases of Women by Pinkham, Lydia Estes

Send small sums, from 50 cents to one or two dollars by postal note, cash or stamps; larger sums should be sent by registered mail or post office order.

From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

The farmer wondered for an hour what the editor was driving at, when he happened to think of the word "unsettled," and he sent a postal note forthwith.

From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

When I say dollar, darling, of course an express order, or a postal note, or even stamps would be all the same.

From Literary Lapses by Leacock, Stephen

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