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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For 70 years, the queen’s head has featured on the vast majority of postage stamps used in the UK.
    WIRED, 21 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • The company will print it on the card chosen and send it to the recipient, and even pay for the postage.
    Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Keep a close eye on the costs of both the packaging materials as well as the postage costs.
    Catherine Erdly, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Will the state pay for postage in lower-profile elections?
    Jonathan Lai, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Rather than a set price, the postage rate was determined by the length of the letter and how far it was being sent, said USPS.
    Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 1 July 2023
  • This year a series of U.S. postage stamps were issued in her honor.
    Ann Landi, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Any Forever stamp covers the cost of first-ounce postage even if the price of a stamp changes, Coleman said.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 12 July 2024
  • If mailed, the return must be postmarked on or before the due date with proper postage.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2024
  • They're reimbursed for postage from the group's fundraising funds.
    Bethany Hines, CNN, 29 June 2020
  • 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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