Sub-postmistress Wendy Telfer offered to lend her own money to any "really desperate" customers of the branch in Bellingham, Northumberland.

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From 1819 to 1843, Truro's postmistress was a Miss Thomas, who preferred the use of blue ink instead of the normal black stamping.

BBC: Rare Truro blue marked letter found in Exeter archive

Volunteers took it in turns to act as postmistress in the temporary post office, each donating their salary from the post office to the fund-raising effort.

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Two, three, five, eight, eighteen Hastings-on-Hudsonians lumbered in to check their boxes, sort circulars into recycling bins, greet the postmistress, and trade coins for stamps, each of comically tiny denominations.

NEWYORKER: The King of Sentences

Yet somehow between transactions the postmistress had snuck away for a tattling phone call, or so we surmised from the blinking patrol car that now swept up in front of the P.

NEWYORKER: The King of Sentences

We checked with the postmistress.

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