This is quietly happening. #Postmark
Source: USA TODAY https://share.google/sxdenqB2CvZzxudvh
#Postmark
Beware hazards of USPS postmark rule change
https://www.tiktok.com/@cjnlegalnurse/video/7589339837644164382
#USPS #postmark #voting #elections #healthcare #registration #deadlines #news
For why this change in #postmark practice is so major: https://wisconsinui.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/postmark-changes-at-the-post-office-and-late-mail/
Beginning last Thursday, you may drop mail off, and it won't be postmarked until it's received by a larger processing facility. Usually the next day, if someone is in a rural area. 🧵 👇 #votersuppression #pnw #wa #washingtonstate #mail #usps #postmark #oregon
The trump-compliant #USPS has changed the rules for the #postmark date of mail. As of last Wednesday, December 24, the postmark date is the day they #process your mail piece, NOT the day you drop it off.
If you do #VBM, try to find a secure government #dropbox. If you can’t, put your #ballot in the mail far ahead of time — or, if you can, take it to the #postoffice and have the agent there #postmark it in front of you. #votersuppression #votebymail
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5582370/mail-in-ballot-postmark
PSA: Changes In U.S. Post Office Rule Affect Date Sensitive Mail
There’s a change in U.S. Post Office rules that went into effect on December 24, 2025 that will affect anyone who needs to drop a date sensitive item in the mail. If you use what is now commonly referred to as “snail mail,” think taxes. Think donations that you make the end of the year. Think normal bill paying.
We’ve been accustomed to what was a time honored legal tradition that if we dropped that bill in the mailbox or at a post office that it was postmarked that day and the postmark would be honored when it was received. When it comes to end of the year donations and ordinary bill paying the “mailbox rule” was honored as the date that should be credited or accepted. Well, that’s no longer necessarily the case.
Again, think of every news story you’ve ever read about long lines of last minute tax filers at a post office on April 15th. The new rule doesn’t actually change when an item is postmarked but it clarifies that a machine-applied post mark represents “the date of the first automated processing operation” at a processing facility rather than the date the piece of mail was dropped off. In USPS speak:
…while a postmark confirms the USPS possessed a mail piece on the date inscribed, that date does not necessarily align with the date the USPS first accepted possession of the item.
So, if you drop off mail in the box in front of your post office don’t count on it being post marked if you beat the pickup time marked on the box. If you do a search on this change you’ll see plenty of links from accounting firms alongside local municipalities giving a heads up to clients and local citizens.
There is a remedy for customers who need something post marked on a specific date. You can go to a post office and request a manual postmark, or when you pay for postage at a retail counter the machine label affixed by the post office also indicates the date. Of course you could also pay for Registered or Certified Mail and keep the receipt as evidence.
Although I’m not sure how much those remedies will work when it comes to mail in voting. Which I’m sure is part of the point.
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This stamp from 1962 celebrates 50 years of Arizona statehood. Today, Arizona has been a state for… 113 years, soon to be 114 years. #PostageStamp #Arizona #1960s #DesertArt #Postmark
Postmark changes at the Post Office and late mail
Changes in #postmark practices at the #PostOffice mean that the postmark will no longer represent when a letter was mailed. But, numerous laws presume the postmark is the same as the mailing date. So, many legal cases will soon be "late."
https://wisconsinui.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/postmark-changes-at-the-post-office-and-late-mail/
Beardmore’s Postmark
When I was travelling around the country on the second half of my sabbatical, I aimed to send Jeff a postcard every single day. It was a steep goal, that I didn't reach, but I just counted at least 22 postcards in a stack on our counter. Not bad!? We were flipping through them at Thanksgiving dinner, and I noticed Beardmore's postmark! Have you been to Beardmore, Ontario? It's on the northern stretch of Highway 11, between Nipigon and Longlac. It is home to the world's largest snowman! […]
The Postmark MCP server attack: 5 key takeaways
#Postmark
https://www.reversinglabs.com/blog/postmark-mcp-attack-takeaways
With my new laminator I've made a dry-erase gamesheet for VOYAGES by Postmark Games. Not only that, but it's double sided so it has both the first two maps for the game.
There's less glare off the plastic in real life than in these photos; they're very usable.
I am migrating my site to @ghost.org and found a problem when it asked me to configure a Mailgun account to send newsletters. So I've updated one of my #Python scripts to support fetching the latest post from the API and sending it via #Postmark.

https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-to-send-newsletters-via-postmark-api/59669
Saw a #postmark on a #postcard I sent from #switzerland #suisse years ago in December
- Support for #Postmark webhooks (more providers coming)
- Customizable resource configuration for access control
⚙️ Advanced capabilities:
- Email event tracking and detailed statistics
- Attachment handling and preview
- Raw HTML and plain text view options
Just signed up for #Postmark email delivery service, and guess what happened? Their confirmation email landed in Spam :D #fail
#SelfHosting #Mastodon:
- OVH only offers a Debian 11 image, when Debian 12 was released a month ago
- using Debian 12 means you can't install node by the instructions, because that gives Node 18
- #Postmark, unfortunately, won't let you sign up with a gmail.com address, even if you intend to send from another domain
- Amazon warns as it might take up to 72 hours for DNS records to propagage, that's how long it might take to verify your DKIM configuration. However, it was only 5 minutes for me
Just pre-ordered me a first day cover. #warhammer #gamesworkshop
#royalmail #firstdaycover #1stdaycover #postmark
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