the.com/postmaster
The one bureaucrat whose title sounds like a wizard but means mail boss.
means The official in charge of running a post office and overseeing the handling and delivery of mail.
from A straightforward compound from 'post,' meaning a system of relayed mail or messenger stations (itself from Latin 'ponere,' to place, via the posted stations where riders changed horses), plus 'master,' meaning one in charge. The title dates to the era when mail traveled by horseback relay between fixed posts, and the person managing a station — or later a whole postal system — became its 'master.' No wizardry involved, despite the title's grand ring.
- email origin
- root of every server's postmaster@domain address
- franklin flex
- Ben Franklin was America's first postmaster general
- job scope
- runs a single post office, not the network
- required contact
- every domain must route postmaster@ by internet standard