postmarks

Dec 28th

USPS officials a no-show for hearing on ballots-postmark problem in Ohio

As more and more states rely on vote-by-mail ballots, more and more cities are forced to confront the issue of the reliability of the Postal Service – especially when ballots show up late with no way of verifying that they were mailed on time. Ohio is the latest state to confront this problem, according to […]

Dec 1st

Court finds date on USPS self-service kiosk label is not a postmark

Illinois Supreme Court Finds All Postal Marks are Not Created Equal On Thursday morning, a unanimous Illinois Supreme Court affirmed in Huber v. American Accounting Association. As briefed, Huber presented the question of whether a postmark was sufficient proof of timely mailing to trigger Illinois’ limited mailbox rule. But in the end, in an opinion by Justice […]