Roger asked:
>R.S.O. -- ABBREVIATION
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>While I'm addressing the list, there's a completely different minor
>question that I would like to ask. About 100 years ago, people's
>addresses were sometimes given followed by the abbreviation "R.S.O."
>(It seems to occur with the addresses of minor gentry living in the
>country.) Its meaning must have been obvious at the time, and is
>probably obvious to everyone but me on the list. Can anyone enlighten
>me, please ? (There's probably an obvious source of information which
>I haven't looked in - sorry in advance.)
I seem to remember that RSO means "Rest at Sub-Office". This was because
there was no postal delivery to the house so the addressee had to collect
his mail from a sub-office of the local GPO. A similar phrase is "Poste
Restante". RSO was therefore an instruction to hold mail at the named
sub-office.
Br.
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