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  • noun Plural form of postmark.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of postmark.

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Examples

  • The haunting thing about the cards is that the postmarks are a year old.

    All articles at Blogcritics Miss Bob Etier 2010

  • "We're noticing that most of the postmarks are a couple of days," Young said today ....

    Gazette.com : 2009

  • the military mail sytem doesn't use "postmarks" -but Gore didn't give a damn.

    "You wanna know what I think? You guys who think 9/11 was an inside job are crazy as hell." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Postal inspectors said they had a variety of ways to determine where a package is mailed from, including postmarks and cancellation stamps, which can indicate where a piece of mail was processed.

    FBI: Fiery package in D.C. similar to Maryland parcels 2011

  • The envelope was dull and faded, and did not display any postmarks, but sported a postage stamp that had been outdated for three years.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011

  • The envelope was dull and faded, and did not display any postmarks, but sported a postage stamp that had been outdated for three years.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011

  • There were letters with foreign stamps and postmarks on them, and several receipts and memorandum accounts, and a letter of credit for eight hundred dollars.

    FINIS 2010

  • Postal inspectors said they had a variety of ways to determine where a package is mailed from, including postmarks and cancellation stamps, which can indicate where a piece of mail was processed.

    3rd Package Ignites At U.S. Postal Facility By JESSICA GRESKO 2011

  • His first postal money orders were sent to her from Oakland, but in the years that followed he had arranged his remittances so that they bore the scattered postmarks of most of the states west of the Rockies.

    THE PRODIGAL FATHER 2010

  • There were envelopes but no postmarks, no addresses.

    Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011

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