KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — If your mail needs to be postmarked, you may consider sending it out a bit earlier as the United States Postal Service has rolled out a new change in the way it is dated.
According to the postal service, as of this month, the postmark date will reflect the day it has been processed, rather than the day you drop it off. While sending documents in the mail may not be as popular as it was before, some items like voter registration rely heavily on the date it was postmarked.
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“Where this may end up affecting us, and I’m still waiting on some guidance from the State for that, is in voter registration forms,” said Knox County Administrator of Elections, Chris Davis. “Because we have a very hard and fast 30-day deadline prior to every election where somebody can register to vote.”
Davis said while absentee or mail-in ballots in Tennessee are not affected by the postmark date, voter registration is. According to the National Society of Tax Professionals, this change could potentially have a significant impact on tax filings too…