One cannot trust a private meter postmark, the state Supreme Court has said in a decision holding that only a United States postmark is reliable enough to prove that a document has been mailed on time.
A dissenting justice accused the majority of being overly technical and wasting judicial time and resources by forcing courts to hold evidentiary hearings on timeliness rather than trusting the face of a document.
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