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APO
Army
Post Office
Common
clues:
Mil.
address; Private address?; How to address a sgt.?; Soldier's
addr.; GI mail drop; Sgt.'s address; Part of a GI's address;
Letters on letters to GIs
Crossword
puzzle frequency:
6 times a year
An
army
post office
is a special military system to integrate the civil postal system
to that of the military. Many countries have special systems to
deliver mail from homeland to their soldiers abroad. Normally
they use a main office to collect the outgoing mail, then it is
transported to the foreign destination, where the mail is sorted
and delivered by postal clerks.
Falmouth,
Va. Group in front of post office tent at Army of the Potomac
headquarters.
The
first known use of military mail was by the Egyptian army in 2000
B.C. Modern military mail is used by various armies; examples
include Germany (Feldpost), France (Bureau Postal Interarmees),
Austria (Feldpost), Switzerland (Feldpost), the United Kingdom
(British Forces Post Office) and Canada (Canadian Forces Post
Office).
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article is licensed under the GNU
Free Documentation License.
It uses material from the Wikipedia
article "Army post office".
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