One of the most famous postal orders in history - the one alleged to have been cashed by George Archer-Shee . This is a list of countries that have used postal orders .
British Empire and British Commonwealth [ edit ]
Colony of Aden
Aden Protectorate States
Alderney
Anguilla
Antigua
Antigua and Barbuda
Ascension Island
Australia (classed by issuing state and territory).
Australian Capital Territory
The Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Basutoland (overprinted South African British postal orders issued in Basutoland).
Bechuanaland Protectorate
Belize
Bermuda
Bophuthatswana
Botswana
British Cameroons
British Central Africa Protectorate
British Guiana
British Honduras
British North Borneo
British Solomon Islands Protectorate
British Somaliland Protectorate
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Colony of Burma
Canada (classed by issuing province and territory).
Cape of Good Hope (Cape Colony )
Ceylon
Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)
Ciskei
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Cyprus
Dominica
East Africa (classed by country of issue - British Somaliland Protectorate , Kenya , Tanganyika , Uganda , and Zanzibar ).
Falkland Islands
Fiji
The Gambia
Ghana
Gibraltar
Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Gold Coast
Grenada
Guernsey
Guyana
Gwalior
Colony of Hong Kong
India
Isle of Man
Jamaica
Jersey
Jhind
Kenya
Lagos
Lesotho
Malawi
British Malaya (classed by issuing state and territory).
Malaysia (classed by issuing state and territory).
Malta
Mauritius
Montserrat
Nabha
Namibia
Colony of Natal
New Guinea
New South Wales
New Zealand
Nigeria
Niue
Norfolk Island
Northern Rhodesia
Northern Territory
Nyasaland
Orange Free State
Orange River Colony
Pakistan
Palestine
Territory of Papua
Papua and New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Patiala
Pitcairn Islands
Queensland
Rhodesia
Rhodesia and Nyasaland (classed by colony of issue - Nyasaland , Northern Rhodesia , and Southern Rhodesia ).
Saint Helena
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Kingdom of Sarawak (from 1908, when the British postal order system was extended there)
Colony of Sarawak
Sark
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
South Africa
South African Republic
Federation of South Arabia
South Australia
South West Africa
Southern Nigeria
Southern Rhodesia
Sri Lanka
Straits Settlements (classed by issuing state and territory).
Swaziland
Tanganyika
Tanzania (classed by whether they were issued in Tanganyika or Zanzibar).
Tasmania
Tonga
Transkei
Transvaal Colony
Trinidad
Trinidad and Tobago
Tristan da Cunha
Turks Islands
Uganda
United Kingdom [1] (classed by constituent country of issue - England, Ireland/Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales).
Venda
Victoria (Australia)
Western Australia
Western Samoa
Zambia
Zanzibar
Zimbabwe
Special military issues [ edit ]
^ "Another view" by Douglas Myall in British Philatelic Bulletin , Vol. 51, No. 5, January 2014, pp. 149-151.
^ Владинец, Н. И.; Ильичёв, Л. И.; Левитас, И. Я.; Мазур, П. Ф.; Меркулов, И. Н.; Моросанов, И. А.; Мякота, Ю. К.; Панасян, С. А.; Рудников, Ю. М.; Слуцкий, М. Б.; Якобс, В. А. (1988). "Переводы денежные почтовые" [Postal (money) orders]. In Владинец, Н. И.; Якобс, В. А. (eds.). Большой филателистический словарь [Great Philatelic Dictionary ] (in Russian). Moscow: Радио и связь [Radio i svyaz']. 320 p. ISBN 5-256-00175-2 . Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-09-18 .