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Office & Administration vocabulary · Reception, Visitors & Post

Postmark

Meaning in office & administration, with examples

nounCommon term

In office & administration, postmark means: An official postal mark applied to an item, usually showing where and when it entered the postal system.

In Turkish: posta damgası

How it is used

Used when checking dispatch dates on received mail; a postmark does not itself prove when the recipient received the item.

Example sentences

  1. The postmark shows that the letter entered the postal system on Monday.

    The mark supplies a processing date, not the date the letter was read.

  2. Keep the envelope because its postmark may help explain the delay.

    The envelope preserves information about when the item was posted.

Common collocations

  • check the postmark
  • dated postmark
  • postmark on an envelope
  • registered mailA postal service that records mailing and delivery, usually requiring signatures for safer handling of important items.
  • postLetters and parcels that are sent and delivered by the postal service; also the postal system itself.

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