| 1. | There are still a number of countries that are issuing British postal orders.
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| 2. | The first Irish postal orders was a transitional series overprinted on British postal orders.
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| 3. | Like New Zealand, British postal orders were issued at the post office at Waitangi.
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| 4. | It is not yet known when the issue of British postal orders ceased in South Africa.
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| 5. | Like the first 2 series, this series was also a series of overprinted British postal orders.
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| 6. | The first postal orders to be issued in Ireland were British postal orders issued on 1 January 1881.
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| 7. | In the 1880s and 1890s, the issue of British postal orders spread to most parts of what was then the British Empire.
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| 8. | This has made British postal orders similar to the money orders issued by post offices in the United States and many other countries.
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| 9. | As time went on, the issue of British postal orders declined in most parts of the British Empire, later the British Commonwealth.
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| 10. | The issue of British postal orders ceased due to the scrapping of foreign exchange controls by the New Zealand Finance Minister, Roger Douglas.
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