postmark

Example Sentences

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Make sure to see the envelope handstamped with the postmark instead of tossing the letter in the mailbox, O’Saben added.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

Fourteen US states allow mail-in ballots to be tallied after the date of the election if they bear a postmark by Election Day.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

Legal and administrative systems have for decades treated a postmark as evidence of when an individual met a deadline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

It has earned the romantically-named village worldwide fame, with sweethearts from every continent - even Antarctica - paying to have the Lover postmark on their cards.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2025

But the envelope’s postmark was fifteen years old.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs