postmaster
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After his reelection in 1832, Jackson nominated Kendall to be postmaster general.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
Blumenthal, the Connecticut Democrat who received the whistleblower disclosure, asked the postmaster general for detailed info about the plan in a letter this week.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 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
The committee has made several recommendations to the government with the broad message that every postmaster be made fully aware of the options for claiming compensation.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2025
And Mr. Johnson, the postmaster, had wanted to sanitize my letter before he handled it.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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 thus continued to withhold antislavery periodicals, with the tacit approval of Jackson protégé Kendall.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
The government has also committed to setting up a new appeals process for postmasters who accepted a fixed payout under the HSS scheme.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
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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