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I applied for an absentee ballot a month before the primary election day, sending the application to my Secretary of State two weeks before the deadline Usually it can take three to four days to deliver a letter within the state.
Waited for the mail to come in on election day. It still hadn't arrived.
So I went to the local polling station, filled out a ballot (voted for Bernie rather than uncommitted, Joe won by 57%, Gabbard’s still on the ballot). I don’t usually wait in line. Everybody was wearing PPEs.
I finally received my absentee ballot two days after the primary election day. It appears that the Secretary of State sent my ballot on that primary election day, judging from the stamping; it got cancelled at the USPS facility nine days after it got franked. This means that nine days were allocated for delivery but USPS didn’t cancel it until election day itself. CYA?
I may send a letter to the Secretary of State complaining about receiving my absentee ballot so late. This is the issue with first class bulk that probably is affected not only by slowdowns but by the use of USPS sorting machines.
This is a cautionary tale.
When I voted absentee before, I have used a variety of methods over many elections, ranging from using FedEx, ExpressMail, Certified with Return Receipts because one time, the envelope design caused the absentee ballot to be returned to me because there were machine readable addresses on both sides of the envelope. I actually complained to my city’s board of supervisors.
Not nearly as bad as taxes, but that’s the deal if you’ve had petty-bureaucratic a-holes claim they received something late. And then there’s the fragment of a destroyed package the USPS sends to you because they looted the package, ostensibly to do CYA.
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Voter registration & absentee ballot deadlines. *1: Apply to vote. *2: Apply to vote absentee. *3: Fill out your ballot immediately. *3: Mail THAT day OR… *4: Drop it off Election Day. Skip line & hand it to the poll worker.https://t.co/SDeBfEyQbt… pic.twitter.com/Edy69jWptN 23
President Trump admitted in an interview he plans to block additional funding for the U.S. Postal Service in order to prevent increased voting by mail.
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USPS Warns At Least 2 States That Mail-In Ballots May Not Be Delivered On Time || Via Huffpost https://t.co/KtqVhD8WAR
“Once my absentee ballot arrives, I’m going to complete it, drive to the elections office, put on a mask, go inside, and hand-deliver it to the elections clerk.” https://t.co/pEucVmGjmD
This North Carolina Trump Victory mailer telling people to request a ballot in the mail blurs out the second half of Trump's tweet, which in part reads “Bad things happen with Mail-Ins.” https://t.co/UfXTVpq79u
everything we do by mail, checks from social security, ordering medicines, sending greeting cards, xmas cards, paying our bills, getting our statements, VOTING, passports, receiving food, clothes, household goods, major business please call your senators (202) 224-3121
There’s all kinds of things that people want to send in the mail, OTOH, you haven’t lived until you’ve waited for someone trying to figure out how to package marine fittings (boat rails) in a UPS store.
In whatMailClasses can I Ship Items in Dry Ice? Dry Ice is prohibited from InternationalMail. Dry ice is permitted in quantities of up to 5 pounds per mailpiece when shipped as DomesticMailvia air transportation (PriorityMailExpress, PriorityMail®,First-ClassMail®, and Fir st-Class Package Service-Commercial™).
First, let’s revisit that coconut. Turns out, there’s actually a business in Molokai, Hawaii—Post-A-Nut—that provides a way for residents and visitors to send an unusual, authentic bit of the island to their friends. The business, which was established in 1991, has become quite popular, ranking third on Trip Advisor’s list of “Things To Do on Molokai.” It’s quite the business, as the tiny Hoolehua Post Office sends out more than 3,000 coconuts a year, about 700 of those to foreign countries. Theirannual revenueis currently approaching $60,000.
NEW: @jacobbogage got USPS data showing at least 671 USPS mail sorting machines have been removed across the country since June. Represents a reduction in national mail sorting capacity of 21.4 million pieces of mail per hour. https://t.co/6lOGfByZBCpic.twitter.com/FGV1nto0kn
