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Originally Posted by ufu1395
A Villages mail carrier just shared this with me.
I have told many customers that if you care about your vote please do not put it through the mail. And that’s highly unfortunate to say but, I do see and hear about the issues the office is having with standard letters and bills. I strongly suggest voting in person, and spreading that word too to yourself friends and anyone who cares about their vote at all.
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If you mail your ballot a week before Election Day, and it is going local, you are definitely fine. If you are mailing it out of state, two weeks is definitely fine.
A study was published yesterday that showed that since DeJoy became postmaster general (in July and August) the percentage of local mail not delivered in two days went from around 25% to almost 50%. The study said the primary reason for the delay is that DeJoy ordered that mail trucks leave on time, to the minute, rather than wait until all the day’s mail has been sorted. This means anything not sorted takes an extra day to arrive. It seems that canceling overtime and using fewer big sorting machines isn’t really causing the delay.
But this is just one day of delay, folks! It’s not a week or two. The mail is still getting through. All this stuff about lost mail is anecdotal. Much of it is probably due to slowdowns in mailrooms in businesses due to what’s going on in businesses because of the virus.
Remember, too, that all the television news shows are ALARMIST. They usually emphasize worst case scenarios because they keeps people watching through the next advertisement.