Postal orders of the United Kingdom Royal Mail decided to introduce a series of gift postal orders. These have been retained. Since then, the Royal Mail has introduced a series of postal orders which can be used for purchases at Argos stores, however these have since been withdrawn. The 1946 play "The Winslow Boy" by Terence Rattigan, and the two subsequent films based on it, features the story of a schoolboy trying to clear his name over the theft of a five shilling postal order. The story was loosely based on the real life George Archer-Shee case. Postal orders are now becoming increasingly popular as a
Martin Archer-Shee on 15 August 1902, and received the rank of brevet major a week later. He resigned from the army in 1905. In the same year he married Frances Pell, and the couple had seven children. At the January 1910 general election he was elected to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Finsbury Central, winning the seat for the Conservatives and unseating the Liberal-Labour MP, W C Steadman. In parliament he was an advocate of Tariff Reform and argued for the case for an enlargement of the navy. His half-brother was George Archer-Shee, whose expulsion from