good office meaning

[ashwini.2106]

hi ...
I have seen following sentence in one official letter.

" I would like to request your good office to kindly sent all correspondences to the above mentioned address"

My question is:
what is the meaning of "good office" ?
How to use this word in official letter??

[Khosro]

I suggest you search "your good office" on the net and review some examples of it.

[BobK]

And make sure you look for the singular. 'Good offices' has an idiomatic sense [= 'benign operations"].

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[Tdol]

If it's singular, it's possibly just being polite.

[BobK]

... but it's being polite about an organization (or even perhaps a place) on the analogy of 'your good self'.

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[Tdol]

The SOED gives this definition:

6 A service done, a kindness, a piece of attention, especially of a specified kind, as good office, kind office. LME

[SoothingDave]

I'm not familiar with the phrase. I read it as someone trying to be overly polite in a clumsy way.

I would think you thought I had perhaps two offices, a good one and a bad one.

[5jj]

ashwini,

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