How To Use Postmaster In A Sentence
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The Church hopes that providing rent-free or subsidised facilities will cut the overheads of running a rural post office and persuade the Post Office to replace postmasters.
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As if this were not sinister enough, the letter goes on to threaten that if the sub-postmaster is deemed not to have lied to his or her customers in the appropriate and approved manner their compensation package would be at risk.
Archive 2007-07-29
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When President Jefferson did not give Callender a postmastership after the election of 1800, he switched sides and became a Federalist, with consequences that still resonate—for it was Callender who first published the story of Sally Hemings.
Alexander Hamilton, American
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The postmaster pursued the car but the trailer detached itself from the car in the chase.
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Money orders which, in consequence of misapprehension of the name of the remitter or place of payment have been erroneously made out, can be returned to the postmaster, and a correct order given in exchange; a new commission, however, will be charged on the corrected order.
Canadian Postal Guide
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District head postmaster John Ensoll said he had only received complaints going back to December last year.
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Although he is a sub-postmaster of his local post office in New Road, it's DJing that he loves.
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Children unable to go on to higher education were absorbed into the government sectors as postmasters, stationmasters, clerks and other white-collar jobs.
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The Government has committed over £200m in funding for payments to outgoing sub-postmasters and improvements to remaining offices.
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In response to the spate of armed robberies, the Post Office told postmasters and postmistresses warning them to be extra vigilant.
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Many sub postmasters and postmistresses have pulled out because the recent changes to the payment of welfare benefits have hacked away at their profit margins.
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The postmaster fears rural post offices like Sherston and Hullavington will close without the income received through benefit transactions.
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She tried to have him appointed to the postmastership, which, since all the work was done by assistants, was the one sinecure in town, the one reward for political purity.
Main Street
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There was a blacksmith from New England, a former postmaster of Pago Pago who had been a veteran of the American Civil War, a murdered merchant marine, a woman who died en route to San Francisco, and various beachcombers and adventurers.
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Her father was the postmaster at Newbridge Post Office, following a career in the British army.
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Conservative leader William Hague today urged sub-postmasters to march on London for a rally against the threat to their businesses.
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We are indebted to the sub-postmaster of Liberton, a village a few miles out of
A Hundred Years by Post A Jubilee Retrospect
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The report suggests a buy-out scheme for postmasters and postmistresses who would then have the option of becoming agents.
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After discussions with the sub-postmaster at Hindsford, they earmarked the post office for closure.
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While we will work with communities to find replacements when the sub-postmaster retires, Labour just closed them down.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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By 1919 the postmaster had spread his wings and opened a general store on the Beach Rd corner.
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When I called the postmaster, he said that he wasn't sure I understood what the form was for he'd highlighted the bit about "sexually provocative material".
April 20th, 2003
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The mujik very fortunately knew a postmaster who, if well paid, would not refuse at his request either to let or to sell a carriage or horses.
Michael Strogoff
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You heard the Postmaster was here and so you must prink and prim yourself in front of the mirror — look on this side and that side and all around.
The Inspector-General
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More importantly, most of the postmasters running Britain's post offices are entrepreneurs - not bureaucrats.
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In the following year he was appointed sub-postmaster of Cotham, and removed from the old Toll
The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time
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He and other postmasters today criticised the Post Office, saying they did not feel the organisation was protecting them properly.
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In response to the spate of armed robberies, the Post Office told postmasters and postmistresses warning them to be extra vigilant.
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The postmaster was shot dead by the robbers.
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A letter to Mr Brown from a Betrayed Kirkcaldy sub-postmaster.
Archive 2008-06-01
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This suggestion clearly demonstrates a remarkable lack of understanding of how a postmaster is paid for the work he/she does.
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The postmasters sent enormous volumes of free mail to lobby Congress for a rate hike in 1990.
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The announcement of the closure, planned for June, came last week and is by the mutual agreement of the post office and sub-postmaster.
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The pluviometer was inside the box, and therefore it would have been difficult to convince scientists that the clouds had not entirely skipped Remate de Males during the rainy season, unless the postmaster were to put the whole observatory under water by main force.
In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians
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We want to reassure all our loyal customers we will continue to search for a new sub-postmaster to take over the provision of Post Office services in the area.
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gigmanity" of the postmaster was all at stake, -- his whole influence in the mail-gig of Portree; and so he argued, and threatened withal, and, what was the more serious part of the business, the person he had given the seat to had taken possession of the gig; and so we had to compound the matter by carrying a passenger additional.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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Did I tell you that Cawdel has lost his postmastership, and that we past at the Green Man over the way?
Letter 297
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I soon observed that some one called the postmaster aside in a way which did not appear entirely devoid of mystery, and I acknowledge I felt some degree of alarm.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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A village sub-postmaster is hoping to enjoy the sweet taste of success by branching out with a new venture designed to drum up extra trade.
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The Post Office maintains that sub-postmasters are agents - but going ahead with the appeal would have cost the Post Office more money.
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In buying him at Omsk he had been lucky, and in taking him to the postmaster the generous mujik had rendered him a great service.
Michael Strogoff
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A man becomes farmer, grocer, town policeman, garageman, restaurant-owner, postmaster, insurance-agent, and farmer all over again, and the community more or less patiently suffers from his lack of knowledge in each of his experiments.
Main Street
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A sub-postmaster in the Bristol district was called to account for employing on the delivery of letters a boy of fourteen years of age, instead of a person of sixteen years of age or upwards.
The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time
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Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield said at the time he would try anything, "Yes, even ballpoint pens.
Poor Penmanship Spells Job Security for Post Office's Scribble Specialists
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Three armed men were waiting when the postmaster and his wife arrived to open up the shop.
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Occasionally he played a game of chess with Parson Fisher, the jolly ex-clergyman, or smoked a pipe with the sadler-postmaster; he attended all the East Patten tea-parties, too, but he made himself so uniformly agreeable to all the ladies that the mothers in Israel agreed with many sighs, that the major was not a marrying man.
Romance of California Life
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Catherine which is now part of Morphett Vale was named after the wife of postmaster Alexander Anderson, who laid out the subdivision.
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On his retirement the job of district head postmaster will cease to exist, the responsibilities being undertaken by four senior managers.
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That is why I made the recommendation for a change in the postmastership at Summit.
The Facts of Reconstruction
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A lot of postmasters and postmistresses are living in fear due to the recent spate of robberies.
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The postmaster said the mail-carrier would come by in an hour to take the mail on to Summit.
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Print Ex-Gwynedd councillor Dewi Lewis jailed for PO theft Dewi Lewis held Gwynedd council's economy and community portfolio A former Gwynedd councillor who admitted stealing £53,600 while a sub-postmaster has been jailed for 16 months.
BBC News - Home
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Rauf was jailed for four years in the 1990s for stealing £58,624 in benefit payments while he was a sub-postmaster in Edinburgh.
The Daily Record - Home
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Howe carefully cultivated Daniel C. Roper, the Assistant Postmaster General.
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The pub's fate is a major talking point in the village, according to the local sub-postmaster.
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Luckily, our sub-postmaster had warned me against revealing my bank account number, so the authorities eventually gave way.
Times, Sunday Times
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She is the postmaster of the sub-post office where the postal orders were cashed.
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How much (on average) does a subpostmaster earn per week/year in england?
Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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It should be noted that postmasters are not employed by the post office they are paid for each transaction they perform.
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He has already written to the sub-postmaster voicing his concern.
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Mexico and that the Postmaster General had not given us the consideration we deserved and the postmasters had also refused their acceptance after we had "carted" them to destination.
The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail
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Evidently at that time the fee was paid in money, and the letters then marked with a handstamp of some sort, for in the Postmaster-General's
The Stamps of Canada
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Will postmasters and postmistresses who see their profitability falling risk borrowing more money - if they even can - to expand the goods and services available in their post offices?
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Role accounts not only encompass abuse desks or Network Operation Centers, but also operational accounts like 'hostmaster' and 'postmaster', who have to deal with requests from customers and feedback from key institutions like ARIN and RIPE or domain registrars.
Boing Boing: December 28, 2003 - January 3, 2004 Archives
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The postmaster at Thackley Post Office said they were treating the closure as a business decision but would not make any further
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My father's name was John Muggleton; he was a smith by trade -- that is, a farrier or horse doctor; he was in great respect with the postmaster in King James's time; he had three children by my mother, two sons and one daughter, I was the youngest and my mother loved me.
The Coming of the Friars
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The next sub-postmaster was the late Mr. Buswell, who for some years occupied premises on mid-hill, before moving the Post Office to a site lower down the hill.
The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time
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The check was lost in the mail for a couple of weeks, and I called the postmaster (it was a small town) to see if he could help track it.
Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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The rebel postmaster-general, in _his_ report, made, you remember, an elaborate argument to justify the Jeff Davis law, which forbids the sending of newspapers and periodicals by expressmen.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
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The newsagent, who has been running Longstaffs in West Road since 1980, worked as a postmaster in the 1970s and is willing to refresh his old skills or even rent out part of his shop to Royal Mail to help out his neighbours.
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Post bosses says they have agreed with the sub-postmaster at the Burnden Post Office in Manchester Road, Bolton, that it will shut its doors for the last time in July.
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The referent of the Mexican postmaster's comparative metaphor is itself left unspoken.
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The postmaster was a grouty old store-keeper who, through political influence, retained his position in spite of the efforts of the town's-folk to oust him.
Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes
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A postmaster bound and gagged by two masked robbers during a dawn raid on his village store has told police he wants to quit his job.
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I was in the sub-post office last week; the splendid sub-postmaster is concerned about the change.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their actions put the subpostmaster in a very difficult position.
IcLanarkshire
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One beggar is too proud to beg for pennies, but will beg for an introduction into society; another does not care for society, but he wants a postmastership; another will inveigle a lawyer into conversation and then sponge on him for free advice.
Mark Twain: A Biography
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Luckily, our sub-postmaster had warned me against revealing my bank account number, so the authorities eventually gave way.
Times, Sunday Times
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I do not know that our village postmaster is exceptionally inattentive to his functions, but there is a careless, reckless, easy-go-lucky kind of way of doing business in this country which suits the hasty existence of the natives themselves, and the character and disposition of their Irish fellow-citizens, but which is gall and wormwood to English residents of my stamp.
Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
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Through new vistas of business, it was looking at mopping up revenue to become one of the Fortune 500 companies, the Chief Postmaster General of Tamil Nadu circle said.
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The name of the post-office was changed by the department at Washington, from South Groton to Groton Junction, on March 1, 1862; and subsequently this was changed to Ayer, on March 22, 1871, soon after the incorporation of the town, during the postmastership of Mr. Harlow.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884
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Some branches will have to close and be replaced by a sub-postmaster who visits weekly.
Times, Sunday Times
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CHAMPION (Maurice), a young boy of Montegnac, Haute-Vienne, son of the postmaster of that commune; employed as stable-boy at Mme. Graslin's, time of Louis Philippe.
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1
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The Government may be filling the Post Office's financial black hole but is not directly supporting the threatened businesses of sub-postmasters.
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The dispute has escalated over the past two weeks since the rural postmasters have stopped postmen and women using their premises to sort post on Mondays and Fridays.
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He was also postmaster at Worsley for 30 years and a sidesman at St Mark's Church for 35 years.
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A Yankee jedge jurisdictin 'our laws, a Yankee sheriff enfo'cin' 'em, and a Yankee postmaster distributin 'letters and sellin' postage stamps.
Colonel Carter of Cartersville
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Some branches will have to close and be replaced by a sub-postmaster who visits weekly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Will postmasters and postmistresses who see their profitability falling risk borrowing more money - if they even can - to expand the goods and services available in their post offices?
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They made off in the postmaster's car, which was discovered a short distance away.
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Well, I don't know; maybe he might have been satisfied if it hadn't been for old Nat Parsons, which was postmaster, and powerful long and slim, and kind o 'good-hearted and silly, and bald-headed, on account of his age, and about the talkiest old cretur I ever see.
Tom Sawyer Abroad
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For years now, postmasters and postmistresses have been sorting post, something that we were never meant to be doing.
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The postmastership had given him ample opportunity to work on his poems, however, and afterward Stone subsidized the private printing of a collection of them, his first published work, called The Marble Faun.
The Private World of William Faulkner
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People were very resistant, they don't like change, and the sub-postmaster is an important person in a village.
Times, Sunday Times
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The postmen back the postmasters 110%, he said.
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A postmaster has described his horrifying ordeal as he was threatened at gunpoint by three masked robbers, who escaped with a substantial amount of cash.
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From the private hall a flight of stairs led to the upper floor, where there were rooms for the postmaster, stores, telegraph linesmen, postmen, and the female clerks.
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In response to the spate of armed robberies, the Post Office told postmasters and postmistresses warning them to be extra vigilant.
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Leading industrial relations mediator Phil Flynn will attempt to break the deadlock in the worsening dispute between 540 rural postmasters and An Post.
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The postmaster running a facility in a kirk would not have to be Christian, he said.
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Well, I really can't say that I know - Mary's her mother, and her father's Nobel Aldrich, the postmaster.
AUGUST HEAT
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The christian and surnames in full, and residences, both of the remitter and the payee, should be furnished to the issuing postmaster.
Canadian Postal Guide
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The search is on to find a new sub-postmaster and Post Office to serve Merstham, after the branch on the High Street was unexpectedly closed.
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You heard the Postmaster was here and so you must prink and prim yourself in front of the mirror - look on this side and that side and all around.
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Caroline Lewis, subpostmaster at Abbey Foregate Post Office, said: "The stamps look lovely.
Shropshire Star
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And you also think the president isn’t a citizen and that my postmaster is some how wrapped up in some absurd imaginary global climate hoax, so I mean who really cares?
Think Progress » Brown victory party featured flag calling for a ‘second’ revolution, tea party-inspired civil war.
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The offender entered the premises wearing a balaclava and told the sub-postmaster to open the safe.
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As if this were not sinister enough, the letter goes on to threaten that if the sub-postmaster is deemed not to have lied to his or her customers in the appropriate and approved manner their compensation package would be at risk.
I Am Become Death the Destroyer of Truth
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For years now, postmasters and postmistresses have been sorting post, something that we were never meant to be doing.
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From there, Eli went home to Cerro Gordo, where he got married, became the town druggist, served as postmaster, and eventually started up three newspapers.
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During the postmastership of Mr. Blood, and since that time, the office has been kept at the only store in the place.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884
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Three men were today convicted of murdering the son of a subpostmaster who was shot as they tried to rob his parents 'store.
The Guardian World News
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I was in the sub-post office last week; the splendid sub-postmaster is concerned about the change.
Times, Sunday Times
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The postmaster of a Bradford post office earmarked for closure blames a loss of trade on child benefits being paid into banks.
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Rural postmasters and postmistresses are to be given a share of £66m to encourage them not to close thousands of offices that are vital to elderly and isolated people.
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A lot of postmasters and postmistresses are living in fear due to the recent spate of robberies.
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For a time he worked as the campus postmaster but spent all his time writing and drinking, leaving mail to pile up undelivered, creating a storm of student complaints.
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The recommendation to close the post offices was made after postmasters were offered early retirement packages.
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When my grandfather was courting my grandmother, he was the town drayman, and was often working with the ferryman in transporting cargo to town businesses, as well as mail items to the postmaster for delivery...
Archive 2005-12-01
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Naturally, the drought also affected the nearby town of Kanyaka where D. Brown was the postmaster and Thomas Moyle the publican at the hotel.
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But it proved that Mr. Bert Tybee, the former bartender, desired the postmastership.
Main Street
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Not long ago this led to a spate of uncontrolled closures, with subpostmasters believing they had no choice but to leave.
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Until the Post Office realise that they are underpaying their postmasters, they are going to lose them.
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People were very resistant, they don't like change, and the sub-postmaster is an important person in a village.
Times, Sunday Times
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The postmaster is a surly and incompetent manager.
Frustration with mail situation in Jocotepec
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The postmaster was shot dead by the robbers.
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Chinese ancient architecture, graceful courtyard style. The house is said to be the private mansion of Sheng Huaixuan, a postmaster general in late Qing Dynasty.
