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A certificate of a $5 deposit in the United States Postal Savings System issued on September 10, 1932. The United States Postal Savings System was a postal savings system signed into law by President William Howard Taft and operated by the United States Post Office Department, predecessor of the United States Postal Service, from January 1, 1911, until July 1, 1967.
This 1869 deposit book would be carried by the customer, and is a typical record of a British Post Office Savings Bank savings account.. In 1861, Great Britain became the first nation to offer such an arrangement.
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Post Office Savings Bank is a name used by postal savings systems in several countries, including: New Zealand, later renamed the PostBank; United Kingdom, later renamed the National Savings and Investments; Singapore, later renamed POSB Bank; Kenya, also known as the Kenya Post Office Savings Bank; Austra, also known as the Österreichische ...
A postman collecting mail for delivery. The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. [1] A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems.
The Post Office Savings Bank introduced passbooks to rural 19th-century Britain. Traditionally, a passbook was used for accounts with a low transaction volume, such as savings accounts . A bank teller or postmaster would write the date, amount of the transaction, and the updated balance and enter his or her initials by hand.
People's Own Savings Bank; PlusGirot; POSB Bank; Post Bank (Russia) Post Bank of Iran; Post Office Money; Post Office Savings Bank (New Zealand) India Post Payments Bank; Postal Savings Bank of China; Poštanska štedionica; Postbank (South Africa) Postbank N.V. PostBank Uganda; Postbanken; PKO Bank Polski
Logo used by the Post Office (and later the National) Savings Bank. The Post Office Savings Bank (POSB) was founded in 1861 by the Palmerston government following a suggestion by George Chetwynd, a clerk in the Money Order department of the General Post Office. [5] It was the world's first postal savings system.