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50 Pence Postal Order; British Field Post Office, Alberta
| Issuer | Royal Mail (Post Office), United Kingdom |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | POSTAL ORDER FIFTY PENCE 50P PLEASE PAY RECEIVED/SIGNATURE POSTAGE STAMPS NOT NEGOTIABLE COUNTERFOIL DO NOT WRITE OR MARK BELOW THIS LINE |
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| Reverse lettering | giftaid it Gift Aid declaration This Order Important Issued in the UK by Royal Mail Holdings PLC DO NOT WRITE OR MARK BELOW THIS LINE |
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British Forces Postal Orders — colloquially "BFPOs" — have circulated among UK military personnel stationed abroad since the Second World War, functioning as a controlled remittance instrument rather than a conventional postal order. Personnel at Canadian Forces Base Suffield in Alberta, where British troops train under the long-standing BATUS agreement, would have used this through the embedded British Field Post Office.
De La Rue's watermark security on these is notably modest relative to contemporary civilian postal instruments — deliberate, given the controlled distribution environment and the assumption that field conditions limit sophisticated verification.