Manitowoc County Treasurer Melissa McCulley is advising residents of a new U.S. Postal Service policy that changes when the mail is postmarked.
Instead of receiving a postmark when the U.S. Postal Service first handles your envelope, mail now may be postmarked at regional sorting centers.
This means that your envelope may not receive a postmark until several days after you place it in your mailbox.
Many Federal and State laws define timely property tax payments based on the U.S. Postal Service postmark, meaning payments may be considered delinquent if they are mailed too close to the payment due date – even if they were, in fact, placed in a mailbox before the due date.
So, McCulley advises homeowners, “don’t wait until right before your payment is due to put your payment in the mail.”
Another option would be to physically take your payment to the Post Office and request that they postmark your payment in front of you.
