Post Office Money Orders Introduced between USA & UK.

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Document ID 9612208
Date 25-06-1859
Document Type Newspapers (Extracts)
Archive South Eastern Education & Library Board
Citation Post Office Money Orders Introduced between USA & UK.;Portadown News & County Armagh Advertiser; CMSIED 9612208
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Precis of newspaper report: Agreement between UK & US
Postal Authorities to introduce reciprocal arrangement
for handling money orders -mostly money transferred from
USA to Ireland - came into operation 1 Jun 1859. The very
first money order from the USA serial No.1 issued 1 Jun 1859
was encashed at Portadown Post Office on Friday 24 Jun 1859.