The postal savings bank scheme as advocated by Postmaster General Meyer should be put into operation in the United States.
The postmaster appeared at last, mail-sack in hand, which he consigned to Jerry's care, and that burly individual clambered up to his place as gracefully as his big body and exceedingly short legs would permit.
The Postmaster General shall be appointed by Commission under the Great Seal of Canada, and shall hold his office during pleasure.
Inasmuch as the impression is type-set and printed, it was doubtless a scheme of the Postmasterto prepare the envelopes and save stamping them with the office seals afterwards, as would be necessary if no adhesive stamp were attached.
The Postmaster General may make reasonable compensation to Masters of vessels not Post Office Packets for conveyance of ship letters from foreign ports to Canada.
Someone wrote thePostmaster General, quoting the above letter and asking further particulars.
Here, too, we heard of highwaymen, the post-station having been robbed of some horses, which the postmasterhad been lucky enough to recover.
On the road the relays of horses were scarcer than usual, and in one place I was warned that at the next station there was only one relay, and congratulated by the postmaster (an old acquaintance) on being in time to get it.
The postmaster must needs content himself with a lower bough.
Well, my friend, if the alcade and postmasterfound the society of the French so agreeable, how did the Cura feel?
The alcade and postmaster were false to their country, and in the pay of the invaders.
Those classified under any postmaster at any post-office, including that at Washington, shall be designated "The classified postal service.
I regret extremely that my sense of justice demanded that I should make David Wheelock postmasterat Brampton, and I have made him so.
On this occasion the postmaster was seated in his shirt sleeves by the stove, alone, his listeners being conspicuously absent.
But," she exclaimed, "but Cousin Ephraim is postmaster of Brampton.
Uncle Jethro," said Cynthia, "Mr. Sutton does not believe me when I tell him that Cousin Ephraim has been made postmaster of Brampton.
Rumors had been rife that summer, prophecies of changes to come, and the resignation of the old man who had so long been postmaster at Brampton was freely discussed--or rather the matter of his successor.
That night a piece of news flashed over the wires to New England, and the next morning a small item appeared in the Newcastle Guardian to the effect that one Ephraim Prescott had bean appointed postmaster at Brampton.
President Jackson and Amos Kendall, his Postmaster General, had openly set the Constitution at defiance by justifying the rifling of the mails and the suppression of the circulation of anti-slavery newspapers in the South.
The innkeeper and the postmaster smoked their pipes outside until the first outburst of childish grief had spent itself.
It grieved the innkeeper that another name than the author's must be signed to his telegram; but intellect yielded to rank; the postmaster signed alone.
At a village some leagues beyond Metz, the postmaster came and told him that there were no horses.
He recognised the postmaster armed with a dark lantern.
When he had gone a hundred yards down the road, and it was impossible to be overheard, he said to Julien: "Do you know the real truth, the postmaster is a scoundrel.
Beside the postmaster was a man who was calmly searching the open seat.
He knows I'm postmaster in this town and sort of prominent.
He had evidently concluded his conversation with the postmaster and now was bearing down majestically upon me, like a ten thousand ton steamer on a porgie schooner.
Bradley, nephew of the Abraham Bradley who came to Washington with the Government in 1800 as Assistant Postmaster General.
We once saw an old gentleman, with a wise, fine head, calm face, and a most benevolent look, beg of a postmaster to return him a letter which he had dropped into the box.
Taylor, Postmasterof New York, and presented by him to the New York Historical Society.
Not for a great deal would Hilda have despatched through the hands of the old postmaster at Bursley--who had once been postmaster at Turnhill and known her parents--a telegram such as hers addressed to anybody named "Cannon.
The post office was incommoded; even the Postmaster General was incommoded, and only by heroical efforts and miraculous feats of resourcefulness did he save himself from the ignominy of running out of shilling postal orders.
The postmaster of New York can get no more; but any moderately large town will give as much, and in this way an amount of patronage is provided which in a political view is really valuable.
Letters arrived at any hour in the day miscellaneously, and were dispatched at any hour, and I found that the postmaster at one town could never tell me with certainty when letters would arrive at another.
A postmaster is paid a certain commission on letters, till it amounts to 400l.
But while their pay was small, a good deal of form and circumstance attended their appointment, as will be seen from the following reproduction, on a reduced scale, of the formal appointment of the postmaster of East Grinstead in 1786.
Jane, noting the radiant happiness in her friend's face, believed that she also knew, but her attention was attracted again to the small window near which she stood, for the postmaster was touching her arm with a long letter.
But before the postmaster would give up the parcel he presented the girl with a paper to sign.
This consumed the time of the postmaster and the letter writer.
But instead of fixing a stamp on the envelope (there was no such thing in 1840), the writer sent the letter to the post office and paid the postage in money, whereupon the postmaster stamped the letter "Paid.
The postmaster exclaimed, with tears of joy, “As long as I live I shall think, with enthusiasm, of Frederic Chopin.
The other travellers stepped in softly, and at the same time the tall postmaster and his buxom wife appeared at the side door with their two pretty daughters behind them.
If, however, a person whose mail is lost can trace the loss to the carelessness of a particular postmaster or mail-carrier, he may sue such postmaster or carrier for damages sustained.
On an important occasion, Lincoln stood by the Democratic Postmaster General, and opposed the policy of the Whig members of the Committee.
In the same letter he said there was no question as to the propriety of removing the postmaster at Carlinville, that the latter boldly refused to deliver during the canvass all documents franked by Whig members of Congress.
The acceptance of the office of postmaster at New Salem, under the administration of General Jackson, had no particular bearing upon the political views of Abraham Lincoln.
Let me here also ask why Mr. Fawcett, the late Postmaster General, allowed his letter-carriers to be employed as detectives in such a case.
As Mr. Fawcett refused to censure the postmaster for exceeding his duty, or the letter-carrier for committing perjury, I cannot hold him altogether guiltless in the matter.
We refer to Herbert Spencer, the Laramie National Bank, and the postmaster of this city, as to our reputation for truth and veracity.
NO one denies that the postal card is a great thing, and yet it makes most people mad to get one This is because we naturally feel sensitive about having our correspondence open to the eye of the postmaster and postal clerk.
The party also included Governor Hoyt, Assayer Murphy, Postmaster Hayford, and several other prominent men.
OUR attention has been called to a remark made by the New York Tribune, which would intimate that the journal referred to didn't like Acting-Postmaster F.
Do you think that the postmaster is going to wear out his young life in devouring literature that the sendee don't feel proud of when he receives it?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postmaster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
