Postage Meter Machine Date Rules

Print a new label with the correct date.

Postage meter machine date rules.

Users can print a corrected label if they miss the original mailing date. Metered mail users must mail items on the same date printed on the postage label s postmark. No non digital postage meter may be rented and as a result of this update many machines have been discontinued. Mail deposited after the day s last scheduled collection may bear the actual date of deposit or the date of the next scheduled collection.

Mail must be metered with the actual date of mailing. The first corrected label is free but additional corrections incur a fee. The five current approved providers are listed below. Postage can be used which was date stamped on the day the item was deposited in the mailbox or the date of when the next scheduled collection will be.

A postage meter or franking machine is a mechanical device used to create and apply physical evidence of postage or franking to mailed items postage meters are regulated by a country s postal authority. If the postage bears a previous or future date the meter stamp is considered stale the meter date must be updated daily. The customer accepts responsibility for control and use of the system and agrees to abide by all rules and regulations governing its use. A meter stamp must bear the current date.

That can be a problem since the post office might only be open until three or four in the afternoon and pickups at local boxes typically aren t any later than five or six o clock. Rules for use of a postage meter. Postal service rents or leases postage meters to businesses. Regulations set by the usps since 1st january 2009 it is only permitted to lease digital postage meters.

The label must show a postage value of zero. The meter stamp serves as proof of payment and eliminates the. If the postage bears a previous or future date the meter stamp is considered stale the meter date must be updated daily. Updated september 26 2017.

The date format used in the indicia is subject to the following conditions. A postage meter imprints an amount of postage functioning as a postage stamp a cancellation and a dated postmark all in one.