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Mail-in ballots with a June 2 election day postmark will continue to be accepted by county election officials through Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

“If the postmark is not the same as the city and state of the ‘supposed’ issuing bank, it might be an indication the check is fake.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026

Tickets go on sale on Friday and are restricted to people with a Bolton postmark.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 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

The letter had been opened by the censors—held by them, too: the postmark was over a week old.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Elizabeth Parmelee, a scholar of democracy and civic education at Metropolitan State University of Denver, explained how Colorado orchestrates its elections, which are conducted by mail, but without postmarks.

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2026

But a lifelong interest in stamps and postmarks seem to have led to him taking letters that caught his eye.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025

States set their own election laws, and most rely on postmarks to determine if a vote was cast in time.

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024

Its postmarks can legally serve as documentation of when an item was mailed, whether a postcard or a ballot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2021

She doesn’t quite understand how postmarks work—I don’t really, either—but I give my best explanation.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

That included a facility in Pennsylvania on the state’s primary election day, which caused 56 ballots to be postmarked with the wrong date.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

“The public can no longer assume that a piece of mail dropped in a mailbox before collection time on a specific day will be postmarked that same day,” Alexander said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

This delayed overtaking of Pratt by Raman was largely expected, because California’s vote-by-mail system accepts ballots postmarked on or before Election Day and received within seven days of the election.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

State law, which favors voter participation over speed, requires that election officials verify and count every ballot that is postmarked by Election Day and arrives within a week after.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Why would there be letters postmarked from the front of a war Theo never fought in?

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Also, at five of nine mail processing facilities studied, retail clerks who were postmarking ballots by hand sometimes used stamps with inaccurate dates, according to the report.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

The Postal Service, however, hasn’t viewed the record-keeping use of postmarking as a service.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

The other pieces include the time carriers return from their routes in the evening, postmarking mail at night and sorting the carrier’s mail before dawn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2020

Most postmarking takes place in Anchorage, a day or more away by mail from most of the state.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2020

First of all, there’s a difference in messaging between mailing and postmarking.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2020