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postmaster

[pohst-mas-ter, -mah-ster] / ˈpoʊstˌmæs tər, -ˌmɑ stər /


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Kendall’s reply to the Charleston postmaster was careful but unmistakable.

From Slate Sep. 4, 2026

Both the postmaster general and Congress choose to ignore the elephant in the room—the American Postal Workers Union.

From The Wall Street Journal May 17, 2026

He was a postmaster for 30 years and went on to be a local councillor before retiring in 2013.

From BBC May 15, 2026

U.S. in 1926, which held that the president could remove a postmaster in Oregon.

From Salon Oct. 8, 2025

The postmaster showed the letter to two other men.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

Southern postmasters thus continued to withhold antislavery periodicals, with the tacit approval of Jackson protégé Kendall.

From Slate Sep. 4, 2026

He instructed Southern postmasters to record and publicize the names of even individual subscribers to abolitionist newspapers to encourage intimidation by their neighbors and perhaps even compel them to leave the South.

From Slate Sep. 4, 2026

She has dedicated the honour to "all the sub postmasters that we have lost".

From BBC Jun. 2, 2026

Southern postmasters instituted a comprehensive censorship of mail to prevent antislavery literature from reaching the South.

From Salon Jul. 26, 2025

Stagecoaches to and from Philadelphia were stopped; postmasters used tongs to dip mail and newspapers from the city in vinegar and other substances they thought would purify them.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy




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