Re: B.F.P.O.

[Richard Caley <rjc@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk>]

Jon Drukman:

jd> i guess so.  but i don't buy this Post Office jazz.  why would our
jd> little army boy be coming home from a daring assignment with the Post
jd> Office in a body bag?

BFPO isn't generally used as the name of an organisation (though it
might mean that too), it's the form of a postal address:

	Private A. Squaddy,
	152nd Regmt. Royal Highland Spud Bashers,
	B F P O 666

plus presumably some other stuff. Ie, it's like a postal/zip code for
getting mail to people in the services whose physical address might be
variable or even secret. So, `coming home from BFPO' means coming home
from some forces unit.

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