Postal order at Appledore

It took three years for a postal order gift to travel from Irsha Street to Meeting Street, Appledore.
The postal order of five shillings was sent in 1955 by Miss M Arnold, of Irsha Street, to the two children of Mrs Whitlock of Cullompton. Mrs Whitlock spends Christmas with her aunt, Mrs D Slade, at Meeting Street, and it was to this address that the postal order was sent.
It arrived with another postal order of five shillings – this year’s gift to the children from Miss Arnold – on the Monday after Christmas.
It was not until Mrs Whitlock had seen Miss Arnold to thank her for the two postal orders that this was discovered.
As it is not possible to cash a postal order which is so old, Mrs Whitlock is to see the Bideford Head Postmaster about it.
Gazette article dated 9 January 1959