field post office

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field post office

n
(Military) a place to which mail intended for military units in the field is sent to be sorted and forwarded. Abbreviation: FPO
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Field Post Office of 1st Lowland Regiment and a photograph of a young soldier from Liverpool, taken in France
FIGHTING MP Denis Murphy, left, receives the 1,750 signature petition to save St Mary's Field post office in Kirkhill from Coun Andrew Tebbutt.
"Post Office Ltd have already hinted publicly via the media that they are prepared to throw a lifeline by strongly reconsidering the closure decision against the St Mary's Field Post Office in Kirkhill, Morpeth, before the consultation exercise formerly closes on August 11.
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