AM64
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Guess you missed the whole USPS slowdown cluster F Trump appointee DeJoy caused?
Immediately following the election there was reports of upwards to 300k ballots that got lost in the mail system.
Follow up reporting claims they weren’t “lost” but rather they weren’t scanned and couldn’t be confirmed delivered. But since we are choosing what we want to believe based on feelings/smell tests/anomalies, then I’m going to stick with lost.
No, I read what was released, but I'm betting there's more to the story ... a lot more. First, the initial decision to change didn't sit well with the postal workers union, so don't bet that a lot of what happened wasn't simply the union going postal. Having said that, as an engineer, I've seen upper level management do incredibly stupid stuff over the years because they were too arrogant to listen and too technically incompetent to understand, so I could believe either option or both. One thing I have no doubt about is that the post office has been pushing volume by subsidizing junk mail with first class mail and it bit them in the end with decreasing first class mail, so perhaps the reduction in sorting equipment had a purpose that the unions went nuts with - less volume = fewer jobs.
All that aside the mail it in voting was a disaster waiting to happen - poorly planned, poorly implemented, and without the necessary security measures. Something that should never have happened in a developed country.