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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It uses material from the Wikipedia
article "Army post office".
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