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The General Post Office (GPO) [1] was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. [2] Established in England in the 17th century, the GPO was a state monopoly covering the dispatch of items from a specific sender to a specific receiver (which was to be of great importance when new forms of communication were invented); it was overseen by a ...
The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted.
List of first-level administrative divisions by population List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4 , withdrawn from the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) in 2008 Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), which covers the subdivisions of the members of the European Union
Mount Alvernia on Cat Island: 63 m 207 ft North Atlantic Ocean: sea level 63 m 207 ft Bahrain: Mountain of Smoke (Jabal ad Dukhan) 134 m 440 ft Persian Gulf: sea level 122 m 400 ft Bangladesh: Saka Haphong: 1063 m 3,488 ft Bay of Bengal: sea level 1063 m 3,488 ft Barbados: Mount Hillaby: 340 m 1,115 ft North Atlantic Ocean: sea level 336 m 1,102 ft
General Post Office (disambiguation) Group purchasing organization; Gun Position Officer, usually a lieutenant, responsible for the technical control of an artillery battery in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth forces
In the United States, a group purchasing organization (GPO) is an entity that is created to leverage the purchasing power of a group of businesses to obtain discounts from vendors based on the collective buying power of the GPO members. [1] Many GPOs are funded by administrative fees which are paid by the vendors that GPOs oversee.
The sea level at Christmas Island, in the 50 years between 1972 and 2022, has risen 5 cm (2.0 in). [113] The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that sea levels will rise by approximately 50 cm (20 in) by 2100 due to global warming and a further rise would be inevitable.
The General Post Office (GPO) of the United Kingdom carried the sole responsibility for providing telecommunication services across the country with the exception of Hull. The GPO issued a range of telephone instruments to telephone service subscribers that were matched in function and performance to its telephone exchanges.