{"id":380299,"date":"2025-12-31T19:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/380299\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T19:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:12:06","slug":"united-states-postal-service-changes-mailing-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/380299\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Postal Service changes mailing process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 The United States Postal Service (USPS) is changing its postmark process, which could impact how important mail like bills and ballots are sent. <\/p>\n<p>For decades, the postmark showed when mail was accepted by the post office and was used as proof that a deadline was met. <\/p>\n<p>The postmark will now reflect the date an envelope is first processed by an automated sorting machine, not the drop-off date. <\/p>\n<p>To ensure timely delivery, time-sensitive mail should be sent several days before a given deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 The United States Postal Service (USPS) is changing its postmark process, which could impact how&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-380299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}