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2 Ringgit - Postal Order - Malacca
| Issuer | Pos Malaysia Berhad |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Cheques |
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| Obverse description | Pos Malaysia logo in red and blue at upper left, with the heading WANG POS MALAYSIA / MALAYSIA POSTAL ORDER in bold letterpress. The denomination DUA RINGGIT is printed centrally with RM2 in large type at right. Two circular cancellation stamps from Satok and Sungai Udang post offices are applied, with a barcode and serial number at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | WANG POS MALAYSIA MALAYSIA POSTAL ORDER DUA RINGGIT RM2 Bayar kepada/Pay to Sebanyak/The sum of Tandatangan Penerima/Payee's Signature No. Kad Pengenalan/Identity Card Number TIDAK BOLEH NIAGA B00969751 1 |
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Pos Malaysia postal orders occupy an odd corner of notaphily — they are legally valid financial instruments, not postage, and were widely used for small domestic remittances at a time when rural Malaysians had limited access to banking. The 2 Ringgit denomination sat at the practical lower end of the range, commonly used for magazine subscriptions, school fees, and catalogue orders through the 1990s and into the early 2000s.
Pos Malaysia Berhad was corporatised from the federal postal department in 1992, and the transition to a commercial entity brought updated security features to the postal order series around the turn of the millennium. Collecting these as notaphilic items remains a minority pursuit — most were cashed and discarded, making uncashed examples with intact payee fields genuinely uncommon.