postal order

type of money order issued by a Post office
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postal order

Summary

postal order ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (36 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • postal order's GND ID is recorded as 4391380-5[2].
  • postal order's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85105494[3].
  • postal order's subclass of is recorded as mail item[4].
  • postal order's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00574393[5].
  • postal order's Commons category is recorded as Postal money orders[6].
  • postal order's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05qg1x[7].
  • postal order's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[8].
  • postal order's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as postanvisning[9].
  • postal order's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 29178712[10].
  • postal order's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007529490305171[11].
  • postal order's Lex ID is recorded as postgiro[12].
  • postal order's KBpedia ID is recorded as PostalOrder[13].
  • postal order's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/35c1e058-c118-46b5-a064-3b623c1dafda[14].

Why It Matters

postal order ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (36 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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