0 a person who is in charge of a post office --
1 a person in charge of a post office: --
He’s the local postmaster.
2 a person who is in charge of a post office --
This conjecture is perfectly consistent with the record of members clamoring for new routes while mutely receiving the department's proposed regulation to exchange postmasters for routes.
Fuller argues that few post offices were destroyed, due largely to local capture of the special agents and the resistance of fourth-class postmasters.
The first step towards obtaining a new route was an informal application from an individual or local postmaster, supported by a petition signed by 150 families on the proposed route.
Not only were inspectors in greater force, boosting the likelihood of monitoring for all offices, but their interests and ideology were now clearly aligned against those of postmasters.
City postmasters had impressive political leverage at their disposal.
There was a minister, a postmaster, and several small shops.
They determined that they were 'going to worry through the other way somehow,' and the postmaster promised to arrange for carriers.
They offered character assessments for letter carriers, clerks, and even postmasters.