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
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
Betty Brown has been a fierce advocate for postmasters and this government has now paid out over £1.3bn to more than 10,000 victims.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
Southern postmasters instituted a comprehensive censorship of mail to prevent antislavery literature from reaching the South.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025
It told the BBC that it is "implementing changes across the entire organisation" so that it is "fit for the future, fundamentally changed and with postmasters at its heart".
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 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
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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