postmark
Example Sentences
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“Mum must have put the mail under your door. Interesting. This is postmarked just yesterday. And it’s addressed to you, not Jakob,” says Colin.
From Literature
Postal Service postmarking procedures mean that if you drop your return in a mailbox on or shortly before Tax Day, April 15, you can’t count on having it postmarked that day.
My college applications—each in its bulky envelope, larded with paper clips, staples and whiteout—had to be postmarked by noon.
In total, there are 14 states that allow mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day to be counted, so long as those ballots are postmarked by Election Day.
From Salon
Since Dec. 24, a postmark no longer shows the date you deposited a piece of mail with the U.S.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
