How to Use postage in a Sentence

postage

noun
  • How much is the postage for this package?
  • I hope I put enough postage on the package.
  • Enclose two dollars for postage and handling.
  • Just pay the postage to send it back and get a full refund.
    Greg Petro, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • And the Yankees, with the help of their postage-stamp of a ballpark, hit a ton of them.
    Ted Berg, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The main pool deck, with adult and children's pools, is postage stamp–size.
    Carolyn Spencer Brown, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2015
  • Mail it without postage and it will be ‘returned’ to the sender.
    Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • At the time, no postage stamps paid for by letter senders were used.
    Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Of the five, Colorado and Utah ask voters to pay postage to mail their votes.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Some of the funds were spent on mask-making supplies and postage.
    Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • First editions late in a series can go for less than the cost of postage.
    Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The U.S. Mint issued a coin in his honor, and Lee has been on five postage stamps.
    Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2017
  • West said that all ballots are mailed with a note about the proper postage.
    Mark Naymik, cleveland.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Central to that is the costs for printing mail-in ballots and postage.
    Andrew Taylor and Christina A. Cassidy, Houston Chronicle, 13 July 2020
  • Ali's face on postage stamps will not happen overnight.
    Jason Gonzalez, The Courier-Journal, 3 June 2022
  • On top of that, the postage for the package which contained the F-150 fobs was paid for with a debit card in Gibbs's name.
    Colin Beresford, Car and Driver, 7 July 2020
  • Voters would have to add and pay for postage themselves.
    Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The issuing of coinage and postage stamps tends to be the first order of business for a new state.
    Geoff Manaugh, The Atlantic, 20 July 2021
  • Sometimes those are as small as a couple of postage stamps.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 26 Aug. 2021
  • LaRose plans to buy first-class postage stamps and then provide them to county boards.
    Rick Rouan, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2020
  • One envelope from WSU showed the postage at the higher rate.
    Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 9 July 2017
  • For 70 years, the queen’s head has featured on the vast majority of postage stamps used in the UK.
    WIRED, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Checks can be made out to any charity, and The Yoga Shop will pay for postage and mail it.
    Quoron Walker, Courant Community, 5 Sep. 2017
  • BigB, the project follows 10-year-old Mervyn, who is able to enter the world inside postage stamps.
    Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 19 Sep. 2022
  • But the two-page ballot requires at least two stamps to cover 71 cents worth of postage.
    Mark Naymik, cleveland.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • There is also a financial piece in the amount of paper and postage that is saved.
    Erika Butler, baltimoresun.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • One new poll, for example, found 74% like the idea, with prepaid postage, of course.
    Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2020
  • The Postal Service says postage for a square envelope is $0.70.
    Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Still, the postage increases are hurting mail volume as well as the USPS' bottom line, some critics says.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 8 July 2024
  • Cullen spent more than $8,100 on Facebook campaign ads, campaign literature, yard signs, and postage and mailings for his campaign, his campaign finance reports show.
    Vanessa Swales, Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2024

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