How to Use undeliverable in a Sentence
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Email sent to his work address did kick back as undeliverable.
—Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 10 Feb. 2020
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Mail from the court that had been sent to Deloach in the drug case, presumably to MCC where he is listed as an inmate, has been returned as undeliverable.
—Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
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Emails to the address listed there bounced back as undeliverable.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2023
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Smith said 20 percent of people sent back the forms, and the Post Office returned 10 percent as undeliverable.
—Greg Stohr, Bloomberg.com, 10 Jan. 2018
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The local mosque did not return calls for comment, and an email was returned as undeliverable.
—Joshua Stewart, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Aug. 2017
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If a summons is returned as undeliverable or not responded to in a timely manner, the court will send out a new summons to a person living in the same zip code.
—Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2021
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All were sent back as undeliverable by the post office — which routinely forwards mail for a maximum of one year.
—Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
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An email was sent to Tesla seeking comment, but bounced back as undeliverable.
—CBS News, 16 Feb. 2023
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An inquiry sent to an email address on the company's website bounced back as undeliverable.
—Kevin Collier, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2021
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Wood did not return emails, and inquiries to #FightBack's news media email address came back as undeliverable.
—Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2020
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This process will catch addresses missing an @ sign or other structural issues that make the address undeliverable from the start.
—Tom Wozniak, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
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Like Miller, Hollander said he had also been told by the county clerk's office that his ballot was marked undeliverable at his address.
—Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, 23 Oct. 2020
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The state then sent a second, forwardable postcard to everyone whose first card was returned by the post office as undeliverable.
—Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 14 Dec. 2017
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If the postcard mailed to the voter is returned by the post office as undeliverable, the voter's registration would also be challenged.
—Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2022
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Current law says that notices should sent after four years of no voting, with no change in status unless the post office returns the notice as undeliverable.
—Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 9 June 2020
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But the distinction between a failure to respond to a notice and one returned as undeliverable seemed to appeal to Justice Breyer.
—Adam Liptak, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
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This usually results from warrants/checks that are undeliverable by the postal service.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2023
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Their registration would be challenged if the notice was returned as undeliverable or the clerk wasn't able to verify the signature.
—Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 9 Mar. 2021
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So their checks may have been returned as undeliverable or their direct deposits were rejected.
—Tami Luhby, CNN, 25 Jan. 2022
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That includes those who haven’t voted in at least four years in a state or municipal election, and voters whose mail sent by the state Division of Elections has been returned as undeliverable.
—Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023
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Mailers are sent out to voters regularly, and the office reacts to those that are returned undeliverable.
—Larry Barszewski, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 Aug. 2017
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Then the papers were sent through regular mail; they were also returned undeliverable.
—Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2017
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Emails sent to it were returned as undeliverable, and Konkler did not return multiple phone calls and messages seeking comment.
—Derek Willis, ProPublica, 26 June 2020
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The money is generally from checks issued by the county, but returned as undeliverable mail.
—Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 24 Apr. 2018
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If the mail does not return as undeliverable, the county considers that address verified.
—Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2021
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There are forms for reporting late or undeliverable mail and to record overtime, though several postal workers say supervisors have downplayed the need to complete them in recent weeks.
—Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2020
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Police say their efforts to inform a school system about the arrest of a counselor on solicitation charges were thwarted by undeliverable emails.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2022
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The letter came back as undeliverable, with no forwarding address.
—Joe Mahr, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
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The goal is to make sure that families who want to receive a payment by paper check can avoid mailing delays or even avoid the horrible experience of having a key check returned as undeliverable.
—Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 20 Aug. 2021
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If a renewal notice that is returned undeliverable, the Medicaid Agency must make at least two attempts to contact the recipients, such as via texting or email.
—Alander Rocha, al, 15 Feb. 2023
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