Re: B.F.P.O.

[Darren Turner <d_turner@postoffice.utas.edu.AU>]

rjc@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk (Richard Caley) writes:

>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.

	B.F.P.O. stands for British Forces Posted Overseas.

	I know this as my father used to be one.

						Darren

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