Postmaster General Burleson set about to protect the American people against radical propaganda that might be spread through the mails.

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.

** Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Postmaster General ; was falsely implicated.

In 1889 George Gillmore, formerly an electrician for the GPO's Manx telegraph operations, was granted a licence by the Postmaster General to operate the Isle of Man's first telephone service.

The cable was completed on 6 June 1929 and the first call between the Isle of Man and the outside world was made on 28 June 1929 by Lieutenant Governor Sir Claude Hill in Douglas to the Postmaster General in Liverpool.

John Reagan of Texas became Postmaster General, and Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana became Attorney General.

Mallory continued as Secretary of the Navy and Reagan as Postmaster General ; both men kept their positions throughout the war.

It was not until 3 August 1965 that the new station and office were opened by the Postmaster General, Anthony Wedgwood-Benn.

When a postmaster is responsible for an entire mail distribution organization ( usually sponsored by a national government ), the title of Postmaster General is commonly used.

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** United States Postmaster General

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* Postmaster General of Canada

* Postmaster General of Sri Lanka

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In 1856, under the direction of Postmaster General James Campbell, Toppan and Carpenter, ( commissioned by the U. S. government to print U. S. postage stamps through the 1850s ) purchased a rotary machine designed to separate stamps, patented in England in 1854 by William and Henry Bemrose, who were printers in Derby, England.

* 1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.

The agreement to make the connection was announced by the Postmaster General on December 1, 1953.

In Myers v. United States,, the Supreme Court held that Congress could not limit the President's power to remove an executive officer ( the Postmaster General ), but in Humphrey's Executor v. United States, it upheld Congress's authority to restrict the President's power to remove officers of the Federal Trade Commission, an " administrative body cannot in any proper sense be characterized as an arm or eye of the executive.

The first postmark ( called the " Bishop Mark ") was introduced by English Postmaster General Henry Bishop in 1661 and showed only the day and month of mailing in order to prevent the delay of the mail by carriers.

During the American Civil War, the Confederate States of America Post-office Department provided mail service for the Confederate States, headed by a Postmaster General, John Henninger Reagan.

James Cragg, as Postmaster General, was responsible for intercepting mail on behalf of the government to obtain political and financial information.

In 1854 Charles Canning, the Postmaster General, set up a committee at the Post Office in St. Martin's Le Grand to investigate how London could best be divided for the purposes of directing mail.

Postmaster Dunning and a few neighbors petitioned the United States Government at Washington to grant them a mail route from Kearney and a Post Office, to be called Clifton.

William Abbott became the first Postmaster, and William Worden became the first mail carrier.

The United States Postmaster General Albert Sidney Burleson explicitly stated in a letter that " it is not the intent of the United States Postal Service that buildings be shipped through the mail " Today the building is used as a branch office of Zions Bank.

George later went on to become Postmaster for this same facility, which handles over ten million pieces of mail each year.

The Act also gave the Postmaster General authority to impound or to refuse to mail publications that he determined to be in violation of its prohibitions.

He was called a maverick, casting the lone dissenting vote for a Republican-sponsored bill extending the power of the Postmaster General to impound obscene mail and one of only two dissenting votes for a bill allowing federal interception of mail from Communist countries.

A kinder-gentler BRCPO ( Black Rock City Post Office ) which actually delivers and sends US postal mail from and to the Burning Man event ( with their own BRCPO postmark by special arrangement from the US Postmaster ), is still run by PDX Cacophony associates.

* While serving as Postmaster General of the northern American colonies, Benjamin Franklin invents a simple odometer, attached to his horse carriage, to help analyze the best routes for delivering the mail.

Upon appointment Reagan became a close friend of Davis and was Postmaster General for the duration of the war, making him the only PMG of the short-lived Confederacy .< ref name =" JOHN H. REAGAN-The Old Roman "> </ span ></ ref > In preparation for wartime mail delivery Reagan proved to be very resourceful.

The United States Postmaster General banned nudist publications from the mail, and nudist camps and communes were vehemently resisted by authorities.

The act also allowed the Postmaster General to refuse to deliver mail that met those same standards for punishable speech or opinion.

In 1901, the colonial mail systems were merged into the Postmaster General's Department ( or PMG ).

Where the Sergeant Postmaster, Sergeant R Webb ( 3rd Foot Guards ), who had been appointed by the Commander-in-Chief, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ( 1769 – 1852 ) in April 1809, sorted and arranged the distribution of the mail.

In 1925, the Congress passed HR 7064 entitled " An Act to encourage commercial aviation and to authorize the Postmaster General to contract for Air Mail Service " ( aka " The Kelly Act ") which directed the U. S. Post Office Department to contract with private airlines to carry the mail over designated routes many of which connected with the Government operated Transcontinental Air Mail route between New York and San Francisco.

Congress authorized the Postmaster General to contract for mail service from Missouri to California as a means of facilitating more settlement in the west overall.

The requirement to accept mail for postmaster implies that RCPT commands which specify a mailbox for postmaster at any of the domains for which the SMTP server provides mail service, as well as the special case of " RCPT TO :< Postmaster >" ( with no domain specification ), MUST be supported.

SMTP systems are expected to make every reasonable effort to accept mail directed to Postmaster from any other system on the Internet.