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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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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Reverse carries conditions of use at left under 'This Order', a central 'Gift Aid declaration' form with the 'giftaid it' logo and Post Office roundel, and an 'Important' panel at right with fields for branch, crossing option, and payee. Issued in the UK by Royal Mail Holdings PLC noted at foot. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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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.