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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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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

We then began to make active preparations for the introduction of the strawberry-roan two-cent stamps and the black-and-tan postal note.

From Remarks by Nye, Bill

Wrote five times, but could not get packet back again, though I enclosed postal note for return in case of rejection.

From In the Mist of the Mountains by Macfarlane, J.

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

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

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