postmaster
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Kendall’s reply to the Charleston postmaster was careful but unmistakable.
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
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
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
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
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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