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postmaster

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


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After his reelection in 1832, Jackson nominated Kendall to be postmaster general.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

Sadly, her aunt turns out to be dead, but Quartz Creek’s postmaster encourages Selena to move into her house anyway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

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

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2025

Damin, who became postmaster after John Reynolds’ retirement, also said that “without Yosemite or the post office, I would not be here.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025

He was in the bed nearer the door, separated by a curtain from his roommate: the Hampden County postmaster, as we later discovered, who was in for a prostate operation.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

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

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025

Today, we apologise unreservedly for the suffering which Post Office caused to postmasters and their loved ones.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025

Excepting in nine of the larger cities of the state all postmasters are registrars for their respective districts.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson


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