postmistresses
Women managing mailrooms
Postmistresses is the plural of postmistress, a woman in charge of a post office.
The term was standard when such positions were commonly held by women in small towns: The postmistresses of rural communities often knew everyone's business.
Now largely replaced by the gender-neutral postmaster.
Postal system items
- lettersAlphabetic characters or mail
- clerkOffice record-keeper
- counterFlat service surface
- stampsPostal payment adhesives
parcels · sorting · delivery · packages · civil servant · uniform · window · registered
Of a prim era
- 19th centuryThe eighteen hundreds
- telegraphElectrical message system
- colonialOf occupied territories
- frontierEdge of settlement
appointment · widows · spinsters · patronage · civil service · rural · small town · general store
Small rural community
- ruralOf the countryside
- gossipInformal talk spreading rumors
- hubCentral connection point
- localOf this area
trusted · confidante · news · gathering · shopkeeper · counter · familiar · neighbors
Records of transactions
- ledgersFormal accounting records
- stampsPostal payment adhesives
- inventoryCatalog of held assets
- regulationsEnforced rules and standards
records · forms · receipts · orders · supervision · assistants · schedules · compliance
Postal system items
stamps · parcels · sorting · delivery · packages · civil servant · uniform · window · registered · telegraph
Victorian
Of a prim era
- 19th centuryThe eighteen hundreds
- telegraphElectrical message system
- colonialOf occupied territories
frontier · appointment · widows · spinsters · patronage · civil service · rural · small town · general store · livelihood
village
Small rural community
local · trusted · confidante · news · gathering · shopkeeper · counter · familiar · neighbors · social
accounts
Records of transactions
regulations · records · forms · receipts · orders · supervision · assistants · schedules · compliance · bookkeeping
postmistressespostmasters
Post office heads
postmen · mailmen · mail carriers · letter carriers · postal workers