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postmaster:
(plural: ‘postmasters‘; female: (old usage) ‘postmistress’; pronunciation: ‘post…master’)
a senior postmaster
a person/employee in charge of a post office, who directs, guides and supervises the other postal staff, such as ‘postmen/postwomen’, ‘van drivers’, ‘stamp vendors’, etc.;
(in old days in the States) a person who was in charge of a station/stage where travellers took rest or changed horses for horse-drawn stage coaches,
a postmistress at her desk
e.g.
A postmaster of small village post office can pass for a highly educated person as he can read, write and explain correspondence to the individual villager, (to most of the illiterate villagers).
Postmasters must know how to sort out customers’ complaints with a friendly disposition.
the first postmaster general of the USA (1775), Benjamin Franklin
{Note: A “postmaster general“, with ‘postmasters general’ as its plural form, is the chief of the entire postal system of a region/state of a country.}
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