See money order on Wiktionary
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"text": "2007, Gary B. Magee, Andrew S. Thompson, ‘Migrapounds’: Remittance Flows Within the British World, c. 1875—1913, Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Stuart Macintyre (editors), Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures, page 47,\nIn the UK, a Money Order Office was formed in 1838, a separate and specialised department of the Royal Mail that had its origins in an officially sanctioned private business carried on from the late eighteenth century.⁹ […] By 1873, a reliable international money order service was in full operation between the United Kingdom and the majority of its colonies,¹⁰ as well as with a number of other countries, not least the USA.¹¹"
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