Postal Order SocietyThis is the POS discussion forum, with some general POS information.

International Reply Coupons from SE Asia

HADaniel3 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:46:36 GMT

We need a topic; Reply Coupons. They were a method of sending money too! Back during the Iron Curtain days, I used to use them to send small amounts of money to people behind the Iron Curtain for my purchases from them. It was very efficient for them and me! And it left no record of my sending the money there which would have been a problem for me during my work for certain intelligence activities.
The communist governments of Viet Nam have never used IRCs but the old French colonial governments and the Republic of Viet Nam, and Kingdoms of Cambodia and Laos, did use them. I will be adding them to the updated editions of my old catalogs for those governments who issued and used them.

French Cochinchina & Indochina & Vietnamese Money Or

HADaniel3 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:39:52 GMT

Postal Money orders from French Cochinchina are scarce, from Indochina, they are VERY scarce, from the Republic of Viet Nam uncommon, and from any of the communist regimes, extremely scarce. I have one illustrated in my latest catalog from the current Socialist Republic of Viet Nam but only own three others. I am now writing the second edition of my Democratic Republic of Viet Nam Coins & Currency catalog and will include a money order from them for the first time.

French Viet Nam & Republic of Viet Nam Pension Books

HADaniel3 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:35:14 GMT

There are no Pension Orders from the old French Cochinchina & Indochina, or the Republic of Viet Nam, but there are Pension Books where the retiree went to a government office (sometimes a post office) to collect their monthly pension. I just bought two of them yesterday from a dealer here in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City. I have probably two or three more back in my safes in the USA. For some reason, they are not a common item to find, even though their were tens of thousands of them issued. I arrived here on Oct 7 and will be leaving on Dec 24. While here I will also be visiting Singapore, Bangkok and Hanoi while I am here.

The Solomon Islands has stopped issuing postal orders.

Aidan_Work — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:56:01 GMT

I have been advised by John Eccles that the Solomon Islands have ceased to issue postal orders,as he was over in both Port Vila (Vanuatu) & Honiara (Solomon Islands) on a numismatic buying trip last week.

I have informed both Mal & Jack of this.

Mal is going to put something in the next issue of the 'Postal Order News'.

Aidan.

Postal Orders of the British Commonwealth - Brunei.

Aidan_Work — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:43:05 GMT

You will all be very pleased to know that I have finally got Brunei represented in my postal order collection - with a $1 one that was issued last month at a post office somewhere in Bandar Seri Begawan.

In due course,it will be scanned & photos will be uploaded onto http://www.tantaluscoins.com .

Aidan.

Where is everyone who used to post here? This place is dead!

Aidan_Work — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:25:12 GMT

Where is everyone who used to post here? This place is totally dead,even though I have posted a link to here up in the Postal Order Collectors' Group on Coin Network (which is also practically totally dead as well!).

I will be very glad once I am fully up & running,including scanning & uploading photos.

Aidan.

RE: Zimbabwe Postal Orders (IBM Card)

Aidan_Work — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:43:17 GMT

phorn wrote:

Wanted any Zimbabwe Postal Order in IBM Card format.

Paul,
I don't know what you are referring to.

The last postal orders that I am aware of coming out of Zimbabwe were issued back in 2005,given the fact that the Zimbabwean Dollar was already hit by hyperinflation.

I can't do any scanning yet,even though I have repaired my computer's original power box.I have to buy PhotoStudio 5.5 to replace the disk that came with my CanoScan LiDE 25 flat-bed scanner early last year (which I have lost since March last year).

Aidan.

RE: How and why to collect postal orders

Aidan_Work — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:59:10 GMT

John,
Postal orders are more popular with notaphilists nowadays than they have ever been,especially with those who are collecting British Commonwealth banknotes,considering that some countries issued neither banknotes nor coins,but they contributed to numismatics through issuing postal orders.

Aidan.

RE: Zimbabwe Postal Orders (IBM Card)

Aidan_Work — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:41:35 GMT

Paul,
Did you get the email I sent you with that Rhodesian postal order link?

I've been buying a few Zimbabwean notes in the past year,plus I got the 2003 $10 & $25 coins late last year.

I bought the 2009 $1 & $5 notes a few weeks ago.

As for Zimbabwean postal orders,the last date that I've seen was in 2005.

I bought a new hard drive this week,so I am aiming to be back scanning & uploading photos before next weekend.

I've got a Union Station post office issue - a Rhodesian Remainder Issue one dated 1981!

Aidan.

RE: Zimbabwe Postal Orders (IBM Card)

phorn — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:32:11 GMT

Hi Adian, Thanks for the information on the Postal Order. Unfortunateley I happen to have 2 of those orders already, 1 from Harare and one from Union Station. I'm really looking for the Zimbabwe IBM card postal order. There was on on the last POS auction but my bid was not high enough. Still looking and that's the fun.

How are things on your side of the world? Looks like no new Zim notes for awhile, if ever again.

Regards,
Paul