postmaster

IPA: pˈoʊstmæstɝ

The head of a post office.
(Internet) The administrator of an electronic mail system.
(Britain) A kind of scholar at Merton College, Oxford; portionist.
(archaic) One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travellers; one who supplies post horses.

Examples of "postmaster" in Sentences

The postmaster is a surly and incompetent manager.
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.
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".
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.
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?
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 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.