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alan8376
Brig
Number of posts : 681
Age : 74
Localisation : Norfolk, UK
Cap Badge : REME
Places Served : Carlisle AAS, Aden, Hildesheim, Bordon, Fallingbostel, Dover, NI Tours, Osnabruck, Herford, Muenster, UN Nicosia, SBA Dhekellia Cyprus x2, Waterbeach, Civi Street 1988. Retired from VOSA 2007.
Registration date : 2009-07-28
| | Subject: Re: BFPO Numbers 26/8/2020, 10:51 | |
| Was there not confusion about one BFPO number getting mixed up?
I can't now remember the story behind it?
Alan... | |
| | | | Pborn4
Brig
Number of posts : 526
Localisation : Between Hannover and Herford, off all main routes
Cap Badge : Not even a reservist now - have been Pborn3
Places Served : Oswestry 1965, Paderborn to 1971, NE Dist, Munsterlager from 1974, Sennelager (1976 to 2012)
Registration date : 2016-12-16
| | Subject: Re: BFPO Numbers 12/9/2020, 21:22 | |
| Alan,
Was this the half remembered story:
BFPO 47 (RAF GT) and BFPO 113 (Mansergh Bks, GT) The reason for this divergence was some silly idea of security when 47 Fd Regt RA moved into Mansergh Bks. The idea was that the BFPO number and the unit shouldn't have the same number, despite the fact that the address would have both the BFPO number and the unit title on separate lines on the envelope.
Even earlier The sequence BAOR 7, BAOR 17, BAOR 27 and BAOR 37 were never used to avoid confusion surrounding the handwritten English and German style figures 1 and 7. | |
| | | | Pborn4
Brig
Number of posts : 526
Localisation : Between Hannover and Herford, off all main routes
Cap Badge : Not even a reservist now - have been Pborn3
Places Served : Oswestry 1965, Paderborn to 1971, NE Dist, Munsterlager from 1974, Sennelager (1976 to 2012)
Registration date : 2016-12-16
| | Subject: BFPO 16 loading dock (site faces on to Bielefelderstr.) 14/12/2021, 15:48 | |
| BFPO 16 - Sennelager - Rear Entrance and loading dock: viewed from inside Normandy Barracks  | |
| | | | Pborn4
Brig
Number of posts : 526
Localisation : Between Hannover and Herford, off all main routes
Cap Badge : Not even a reservist now - have been Pborn3
Places Served : Oswestry 1965, Paderborn to 1971, NE Dist, Munsterlager from 1974, Sennelager (1976 to 2012)
Registration date : 2016-12-16
| | Subject: BFPO Numbers and Postcodes 7/1/2022, 01:21 | |
| And now: Drawdown and Close down left the German Postal system with problems delivering mail to BFPO addresses which were no longer there AND an increase in Mail Order and Online purchasing by people entitled to BFPO services led to an increase in packages being left at BFPO Mill Hill and later BFPO Northolt, and courier drivers from Logistic centres in Germany had even greater problems at civilian addresses on MQ estates or BFPO numbers for barracks. So to level the playing field BFPO Numbers received a UK Post Code! Lists are here: (Main link) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/british-forces-post-office-locations/british-forces-post-office-locations-updated-17-june-2019 " Only use postcodes when ordering items from UK-based websites" BFPO 16 - Sennelager BF1 0ABBFPO 19 - Monchengladbach BF1 0AEBFPO 26 - Casteau SHAPE Belgium BF1 2AGBFPO 28 - Brunssum Holland BF1 2AHBFPO 44 - Wulfen BF1 0ARBFPO 46 - Goch/Wessel BF1 0ATBFPO 49 - Brussels Belgium BF1 2ANBFPO 50 - Stavanger Norway BF1 2AQBFPO 52 - Gibraltar BF1 2AR BFPO 53 - Episkopi Cyprus BF1 2ASBFPO 57 - Akrotiri Cyprus BF1 2ATBFPO 58 - Dhekelia Cyprus BF1 2AUBFPO 59 - Ayios Nikolaos Cyprus BF1 2AWBFPO 105 - Isolated Detachments and then check out Box numbers on main link above BF1 0AXBFPO 109 - Ramstein BF1 0DL " Only use postcodes when ordering items from UK-based websites"
Last edited by Pborn4 on 10/1/2022, 18:11; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : " Only use postcodes when ordering items from UK-based websites") | |
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