New Mail Rules Affect Postmarks Follow Us
Chris Myers
If you’re one of those people who procrastinates sending their bills or waits till the last minute to put taxes in the mail, you may want to rethink that strategy with the newest USPS rules. ABC’s Elizabeth Schulze explains.
“The US Postal Service is adjusting the rules around when letters are postmarked. So typically, when you send an envelope, the postmark date is stamped as the same day you drop it your mailbox or at the post office. Well, now that postmark date could be several days later. The Postal Service says this is part of a modernization process, it evolves around the reality that there are now more packages in the mail than there are letters.”