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
Most Titanic postcards are either franked 'Queenstown' or bear the ship's own postmark, but this one was posted in Cork, making it much rarer.
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2024
A week later Westerberg received a terse card with a Montana postmark: April 18.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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