postmaster

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

As I reported at the time, his name came to the Board of Governors independently of a headhunting firm that the board had commissioned to find candidates for postmaster general.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024

The grocer showed up, and the postmaster, and the principal of the village school, and the neighbor, Abu Mahmoud, who grew famous green beans, and all of their wives and babies and teenagers and cats.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

When the first report of the official inquiry into the scandal was published in July, the Post Office said it apologised "unreservedly" for the suffering "caused to postmasters and their loved ones".

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

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

He said moving to a fully franchised network was one part of enabling the Post Office to deliver a new deal for postmasters.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 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