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G.P.O.

American  
Or GPO

GPO British  

abbreviation

  1. general post office

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Mr. Blair said individuals who are eligible for a public pension and Social Security can estimate their future benefits by running the numbers on the W.E.P. and G.P.O. calculators.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2021

Last week, with a flurry of speeches, the G.P.O. inaugurated a cheap and simple system of transferring funds without cash or checks.

From Time Magazine Archive

I ask the man what’s perfidy and he says ask your father and I would but we’re stopping outside a big building with columns and that’s the G.P.O.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

And I feel tears coming because I’m looking at him at last, Cuchulain, there on his pedestal in the G.P.O.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Dad asks the driver if he’d mind going by way of the G.P.O. and the driver says, Is it a stamp you want or what?

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt