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What Does Description This Cancel Duplex?

 
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dvaldemoro
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Hello everyone

what does description this cancel duplex? ... on the killer part. GPO?
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dlawson281
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General (Main?) Post Office
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BradS
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The only other thing that comes to mind for that acronym is Government Printing Office which doesn't really seem to relate to something postal.
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Puzzler
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The obliteration part of the duplex cancellation (cancel) is sometimes called a football (8-bar) (shaped liked an American football), with the GPO short for General Post Office, meaning that it would be a main receiving post office and distribution point.

A more scientific name would be an oval-shaped ellipsoid, depending on who you would be talking to (expert or non-expert)

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dvaldemoro
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I don't understand .... GPO (General Post Office) Does that not apply only to major offices in each state capital?
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wt1
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I don't understand .... GPO (General Post Office) Does that not apply only to major offices in each state capital?


Not necessarily. The US Passport Office still refers to Staten Island's Main Post Office as a "GPO" based on this link, even though the designation seems to be dropped from the USPS web site:

http://www.passportoffices.us/NewYo...tOffice.html

Historically, based on the stamp you originally posted, the Staten Island GPO was located at the St. George Office and later relocated to its present Manor Road location, based on this quote:

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Thanks a lot wt1
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tomiseksj
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From the glossary of terms for the collector of U.S. stamps ( http://glossary.usstamps.org/ ):


Quote:

General Post Office - typically the main post office in a given city.
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