1. Raybrock, Mrs, postmistress of Steepways.

2. Belle is the postmistress for the town, and it seems her work is never done.

3. She was postmistress of Oxford at the end of her life.

4. Bowing out: Myrtle Milner is retiring as postmistress in the village of Wharram-le-Street, near Malton.

5. Down by the depot, the postmistress, a gaunt woman who wears a rawhide jacket and denims and cowboy boots, presides over a falling apart post office.

6. The postmistress handed him back through the grill his card with a letter.

7. She has lived in Ancaster since 1933, and retired as the village's postmistress at age 72, after 35 years on the job, according to the newspaper.