BFPO
British Forces Post Office

The BFPO form of address is sufficient, for example:

It has a postal address of BFPO 113.

Halifax says its BFPO chequebooks are delivered by a third party.

This service is limited to BFPO numbered addresses.

The military post code for Berlin was BFPO 45.

The origins of the BFPO can be traced back to Saxon times.

BFPO addresses are used for the delivery of mail in the UK and around the world.

BFPO 80p for the first book, 20p for each additional book.

Including BFPO 655.

To Forces addresses without a BFPO number.

Competitions are open to residents of the UK and those using BFPO numbers.

The BFPO part is now at the top and the English postcode at the bottom.

BFPO 61 is for Milan, Italy.

A postcode is not required if the traditional "BFPO nnnn" format is used.

BFPO 47 refers to Princess Royal Barracks.

The country of destination is not required for BFPO address and the addition, for example, of Germany delays the item.

To and from BFPO numbered addresses and HM Ships in home waters.

British Forces Post Office (BFPO)

Troops who fill out the form and request a postal vote are sent ballot forms via the BFPO and existing supply routes.

Below is an example of a BFPO address, using the fictitious Loamshire Regiment:

These have been confirmed as having been issued at BFPO 567, Nicosia, Cyprus, which has since closed down.

This unusual date stamp reflects that this particular BFPO was designated as an official United Nations field post office.

The MOD from time to time may authorise the extension of this service to other BFPO addresses.

Each BFPO number is assigned to a postcode in the standard UK format, beginning "BF1".

BFPO is based at RAF Northolt in North West London.

(see British Forces Post Office for further information).

Applications being posted to the British Forces Post Office are treated as UK return delivery.

One of the services that is provided by some of the British Forces Post Offices is the issuing and cashing of postal orders.

British Forces Post Office (BFPO)

Most British Forces Post Offices (or BFPOs for short) have issued postal orders.

There is also a British Forces Post Office in Ottawa - B.F.P.O. 487.

M.b.e., M.c., Colonel, British Army, British Forces Post Office 15.

Military mail systems, such as the British Forces Post Office and U.S. Military Postal Service, have their own dedicated sorting offices.

The show, which takes its name from the British Forces Post Office number used as its address, was previously known as Children's SSVC.

Northolt has been extensively redeveloped since 2006 to accommodate these changes, becoming home to the British Forces Post Office, which moved to a newly constructed headquarters and sorting office on the site.

The British Forces Post Office (BFPO) provides a postal service to HM Forces, separate from that provided by Royal Mail in the United Kingdom.

Following the relocation of the British Forces Post Office and Defence Courier Service from Mill Hill, a new headquarters and main sorting facility were built for their use which opened in November 2007.

Additionally, if your client has a British Forces Post Office (BFPO) address, you can't use HMRC Online Services to set up client authorisations for Self Assessment.

The service operated between December 1918 and the summer of 1919, its purpose was to provide troops of the British Army stationed in Germany with a fast mail service (see more at British Forces Post Office).

British military organisations and personnel use British Forces Post Office numbers, BFPO 57 for Akrotiri and BFPO 58 for Dhekelia.

Your wife works in the forces and you say that, in the previous six years, you have had two British Forces Post Office addresses and had never had any problems receiving chequebooks until three years ago.

For example, the Loamshire Regiment is provided by the British Forces Post Office to show how to write a British Army address, and is used to set out specimen charges for violations of military law.

This later became the Army Postal and Courier Service and remained part of the RE until the formation of the Royal Logistic Corps in 1993 - see (British Forces Post Office).

If you are resident on one of the British Military bases in Cyprus, your new passport and supporting documents will be sent to RAF Northolt for onward transmission by British Forces Post Office (BFPO).

Returning Officers will be asked to prioritise all postal ballot packs heading for British Forces Post Office (BFPO) addresses and those bound for Afghanistan will be transported there using existing logistics, to facilitate service personnel participation.

Until the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, mail for British forces serving in the then colony used the British Forces Post Office number, BFPO 1, which was charged at the inland UK rate.

The e-bluey was first conceived of by Brigadier Barry Cash, CE of the British Forces Post Office (now retired) assigning the initial development to Major Roy Walker MBE (now retired) in the late 1990s.

The Loamshire Regiment The Loamshire Regiment is used by the British Army as the placeholder name in the provision of examples for its procedures, for example in the method of addressing letters to members of the forces produced by the British Forces Post Office.