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MPOs operated or supported by the Army or Air Force use the city abbreviation APO (Army Post Office or Air Force Post Office), while Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard use the city abbreviation FPO (Fleet Post Office). USPS added Diplomatic Post Office (DPO) as a valid overseas address effective January 18, 2009. The city abbreviation is DPO.
List of initialisms, acronyms ("words made from parts of other words, pronounceable"), and other abbreviations used by the government and the military of the United States. Note that this list is intended to be specific to the United States government and military—other nations will have their own acronyms.
The Army Postal Service (APS) functions as a government-operated military mail system in India.A primary role of Army Postal Service systems is to ensure security form of address in respect of Formations/Units/Troops deployed in Armed Forces and to ensure that military mail between duty stations in India & Abroad are delivered by adopting security form of address (or vice versa).
By mid September 1939 a Base Army Post Office (Base APO) was established at Cherbourg and a Regulating Section was set up at the BEF Assembly Area in Le Mans. Army Post Offices (APOs) were deployed along the lines of communications and FPOs with their respective formations.
The US Government has seperate agreements with each country it maintains facilities in, so what is mailable to any military post office depends on the country said post office is located in. In general, however, mail sent to an APO/FPO/DPO is subject to the same restrictions on mailing for the country it is located in as are found in the IMM. I ...
Continental Airlines operated up to 30 Boeing 707 military charters per week to and from Tan Son Nhut Airport during the 1968–74 period. [18] It was from Tan Son Nhut Air Base that the last U.S. airman left South Vietnam in March 1973. The Air Force Post Office (APO) for Tan Son Nhut Air Base was APO San Francisco, 96307.
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Mail delivery to a field post office in a French town in July 1915. A field post office (FPO) is a post office set up during time of war or when a military unit is on manoeuvres. It is a place to which mail intended for military units in the field is sent to be sorted and forwarded.