February 3, 2026 The Postal Service has made resources available to employees and customers to clarify a recent addition to Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) section 608.11.0, Postmarks and Postal Possession, and to improve public understanding of postmarks and their relationship to the date of mailing. The new wording, which was officially added to the DMM on … Read more
January 6, 2026 Recent changes to the Postal Service’s Domestic Mail Manual (DMM), which sets out mailing policies and standards, have caused concern regarding postmarking practices. While USPS has updated the DMM to clarify its practices, it is important to note that nothing about its postmarking procedures has changed. Nonetheless, the changes to the DMM … Read more
January 2, 2026 MYTH: How the Postal Service applies postmarks is changing. FACT: The Postal Service has not changed and is not changing our postmarking practices, which have been consistent since we began moving away from hand-canceling every item at Post Offices decades ago. Postmarks are generally applied by machines at our originating processing facilities and … Read more
December 30, 2025 Since 2021, the U.S. Postal Service has been implementing major infrastructure and operational changes to lower costs and improve efficiency under the Delivering for America (DFA) plan. Changes include consolidating processing from nearly 200 local processing centers to just 60 regional facilities, as well as reducing the number of dispatches between processing … Read more