DLO
DLO is the initialism of dead letter office.
Meaning of dead letter office
Noun
dead letter office (plural dead letter offices)
- The postal facility that deals with mail that cannot be delivered.
- There are 4201 letters lying in the Dead Letter Office, London, which contain property to the amount of $200,000.1847, editorial staff, “(untitled: 4201 letters)”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 72
- A channel of communications for which the recipient neither acknowledges nor acts upon any messages sent.
- The whole world is a Dead Letter Office. No one's listening to us. Our words vanish in the wind.2009, Mike Hockney, The Last Bling King, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 101
Forms of DLO
| plural | DLOs |
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Questions about DLO
- What is DLO the initialism of?
- DLO is the initialism of dead letter office.
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