Question. As of TODAY did the postal service decide that no more postmarks?

[bluestarone]

I mean i heard that they stopped, or will stop post markings of mail. So, where is that at? TY in advance.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Postmarked when processed.

Could be today, tomorrow, or the next day at a postal facility. Maybe even more (I would suspect) in rural areas.

If they really stopped postmarks they would have to stop stamps.

[Jacson6]

2. If you need a item postmarked on a certain date you will have to take it inside a post office to have a clerk postmarkit

[Ilikepurple]

9. This is good to know. Many of the news articles I've read gloss over this.

I was worried they took the stamp away from the clerks. I understand the political and voting implications of this rule change, but the news should present an available solution, particularly for non-voting related timeliness. There are many reasons one may need an item postmarked by a specific date, voting only being one of them. To be sure, this will have disenfranchising effect, but less so the more the information is known. There are so many potential changes, Federal, State, and Judicial, to voting procedures in the works between now and November I hope the Democrats can mitigate their intended effect of suppressing votes for Democratic Party candidates.

[Prairie_Seagull]

3. No postmark, no mail in voting.

Am I missing something?

[mwmisses4289]

4. I believe that referred to hand postmarked that a customer could request.

I don't think it refers to machine postmarks.

[Cerulean Southpaw]

5. From what I read

It's for manual postmarks. If you drop off mail at the post office, it may not get stamped with a postmark that same day. It'll get put in a pile that's awaiting processing, and a machine will postmark it when the automated system gets to it. A lot of post offices have been doing it this way already, it's just becoming official as a standard practice.

[nitpicked]

7. I just was in a virtual learning session

The presenter recommended that to ensure proof of a mailing date, to request "return receipt requested" at the post office.

Already, in many places, mail is postmarked when it gets to the regional mail facility for processing.

[chia]

8. A reminder to all mail-in voters: mail your ballots as soon as possible after receiving.