The Postmark is Not What You Think

Just when you thought the Feds could not foul things up worse, here comes the U.S. Postal Service

Virtually everyone thought they knew what a U.S. Postal Service “postmark” meant. For the United States Supreme Court, State courts, clerk’s offices, businesses and people all over the Country, a “postmark” was the date stamped on a piece of first-class mail by the U.S. Postal Service indicating the day the piece of mail was received by the Postal Service. That meaning of a “postmark” is soon to be no more. The USPS has a “new” meaning for a postmark and wants to make the new meaning official through a proposed regulation. The change carries real implications for taxpayers, voter registration by mail, voting by mail, as well as the legal profession.