Definition of postmark
:an official postal marking on a piece of mail;
specifically
:a mark showing the post office and date of mailing
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The Augusta postmark helped investigators track the leak back to her, prosecutors wrote.
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If the bomber was a Slav, that could also be a clue to his location: Brussel flicked through the postmarks, noting that most of the letters were mailed in Westchester, the county immediately north of the city.
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The letter was mailed April 20 and has a Denver postmark.
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On Wednesday, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ann Jones extended the postmark deadline to May 22 for 477 tenants to file for a reimbursement.
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The grocery chain will send them to the Loveland Post Office in time to get the world-famous Loveland postmark.
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American Express was always the first stop, and the letters could then be ordered by postmark date, each letter read and reread and then tucked into our backpacks.
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First Known Use of postmark
1678
Other Postal Terms
Definition of postmark
transitive verb
:to put a postmark on
Examples of postmark in a Sentence
The package was postmarked 13 February.
Recent Examples of postmark from the Web
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The deadline to claim that jackpot was Sunday, unless the form was in the mail and had already been postmarked.
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The main reason Herrod is holding out is that an estimated 30,000 mail ballots postmarked by August 14 are yet to be counted in Utah County (the district’s largest) alone.
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The primary this year is Aug. 1, and voters must have ballots postmarked or placed in dropboxes by that date.
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One person who mailed her ballot on May 19 or 20 was told by the court that the envelope was postmarked May 25 and didn’t arrive at the court until May 31.
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Comments can also be mailed to the DOTD, postmarked no later than Aug. 9.
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It is postmarked August 15, 1938, some two months after my parents were married.
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The packages bore return addresses in Florida or Brooklyn, N.Y., but were postmarked from California.
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Residents wishing their payment to be marked as on time should complete or postmark payment on or before August 1, 2017.
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First Known Use of postmark
1716
Other Postal Terms
POSTMARK Defined for English Language Learners
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noun
Definition of postmark for English Language Learners
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: a mark placed over the stamp on a piece of mail that shows when the mail was sent and where it was sent from and that makes it impossible to use the stamp again
postmark
verb
Definition of postmark for English Language Learners
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: to put a postmark on (something)
POSTMARK Defined for Kids
postmark
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noun
post·mark
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Definition of postmark for Students
:a mark put on a piece of mail especially for canceling the postage stamp
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