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Meanings of postmark in English

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timbrar

Stamp with a postmark to indicate date and time of mailing.

timbrar
Usage of postmark in English
1
From the postmark, I see the card was sent ten years ago.
Love, life and linguine
2
I checked the postmark -he had sent it four days ago.
Voices in the dark
3
The letter bore the postmark of a city in the Rhenish Palatinate.
The Goose Man
4
The first postmark's just a few days before her body was found.
Public secrets
5
The first he opened bore the postmark of St. Just in Cornwall.
Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories
6
One April morning the General received a letter with the Italian postmark.
The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper
7
It bore an American postmark and contained the following lines, in English:
The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin
8
A letter arrived for my father yesterday evening, bearing the Fordingham postmark.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
9
Yes; the postmark is from Dreux, and it costs her six sous.
A Cardinal Sin
10
The envelope had no postmark or date; it was addressed simply to:
The English at the North Pole / Part I of the Adventures of Capt...
11
The postmark is right here in the city, which doesn't surprise him.
Mr. Mercedes
12
He first concentrated on the place, the postmark and the date sent.
Eye of vengeance
13
The characters sloped the wrong way, and the envelope bore no postmark.
The Fallen Leaves
14
The letter contains no address, but the postmark is Allonby, in Cumberland.
No Name
15
The second letter that I took up bore the postmark of Genoa.
The Guilty River
16
This morning a letter came with the crest and the Northallerton postmark.
The Albert Gate Mystery / Being Further Adventures of Reginald B...
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common