How does a postal order work?

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I would like to send €10 to someone and they asked for a postal order but I'm not sure how to go about it.
 
Walk into the post office and purchase the postal order (a fee is charged for it).

You will be provided with a postal order on which you can state the post office to be paid at and the recipient's name.
Post it to the recipient. They can bring it to their post office and get the value

For €10 probably cheaper to do a bank transfer if you can't do Revolut.
 
The point is that if the payee specifically asked for a postal order then they may be confused.
 
It;s just another antiquated paper payment tool. When the receipient gets it, they lodge it to their bank account and the bank treats it like a cheque and give cleared funds once An Post pay them
 
My grandmother used to send my parents a prize bond and would send the odd tenner too for a pint….

Her solution was an open envelope, the thieves ignore those! Apparently.
 
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Yesterday I got an application form to join an organisation I never thought I'd need membership of.

One of the options listed on the application form for payment of the membership fee is "Postal Order". They also list debit and credit cards, cheques, etc, but no PayPal or other modern yokes. Once you cross the initial hurdle of joining, you may subsequently use cards to renew an existing membership, but not as a newbie member.

Passing the post office today after leaving the motor factors, pharmacy and grocery shop, I stopped off to enquire. The postmistress showed me the book of what she called postal orders and bet me pocket-change for the poor box that she's identify the organisation I was joining, based on the need for a postal order to join and its value. They looked like what I remember as postal orders, ordering foreign stamps and suchlike from a philatelists in England. I told her the value and she got it in one! I paid up of course, looking far from pleasant.

Riddle me that then oh wise ones, mere terminology conflict or stuff from the past just hanging around?
 
They do still exist. Some embassies require to be paid only in postal orders. Go into any post office and ask for a postal order. Typical cost is €2 when less than a €100 Euro.
 
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