Postage Meter Machine Date Rules

The first corrected label is free but additional corrections incur a fee.

Postage meter machine date rules.

Mail must be metered with the actual date of mailing. The label must show a postage value of zero. No non digital postage meter may be rented and as a result of this update many machines have been discontinued. A postage meter imprints an amount of postage functioning as a postage stamp a cancellation and a dated postmark all in one.

Postal service rents or leases postage meters to businesses. Rules for use of a postage meter. If the postage bears a previous or future date the meter stamp is considered stale the meter date must be updated daily. Mail must be metered with the actual date of mailing.

Regulations set by the usps since 1st january 2009 it is only permitted to lease digital postage meters. Users can print a corrected label if they miss the original mailing date. Mail deposited after the day s last scheduled collection may bear the actual date of deposit or the date of the next scheduled collection. A meter stamp must bear the current date.

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. 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. The machines cannot be sold resold or purchased. The five current approved providers are listed below.

If the postage bears a previous or future date the meter stamp is considered stale the meter date must be updated daily. Postage meters and pc postage systems. The customer accepts responsibility for control and use of the system and agrees to abide by all rules and regulations governing its use. Print a new label with the correct date.

The date format used in the indicia is subject to the following conditions. Updated september 26 2017.