postmaster
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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
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
Her grandfather was postmaster in Lake Nebagamon, Wis., in the 1930s.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
We talked about how Ivan DeVore, the postmaster, had finally worked up the nerve to ask Velma T. to the upcoming Second Annual Homecoming Celebration, being held eighteen years after the first one.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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
The software developed by Fujitsu was at the heart of the Post Office scandal that saw hundreds of postmasters wrongly convicted.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2025
The Post Office's reputation has also been seriously damaged because of the Horizon IT scandal, which saw hundreds of postmasters and mistress wrongly convicted when faulty software made it look like they were stealing money.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 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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