See Also: postmaster(1)(dictionary)
postmaster(2)(dictionary)
postmaster(dictionary)
postmaster(dictionary)
POSTMASTER GENERAL(law)

postmaster(1) (iou)



postmaster noun1. E16.
[from POST noun2 + MASTER noun1.]
a. An officer in charge of the system of postal messengers. obsolete exc. Hist. E16.
b. Postmaster General, the administrative head of the postal service of a country or State (usu. a government minister). (The post was abolished in the UK in 1969.) E17.
The master of a posting station, who provides post-horses; a person who keeps a posting establishment. obsolete exc. Hist. L16.
Orig., a post-office servant at a stage of a post-road whose primary duty was to carry the mail to the next stage and receive and deliver or send out letters for his own town or district (cf. POST noun2 1). Now, a person in charge of a post office (cf. POSTMISTRESS). E17.
postmastership noun E17.