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Major mail delivery delays raise concerns about voting in the 2024 elections
NBC News | Comcast ^ | April 6, 2024 | By Shannon Pettypiece (D-NBC)

Posted on 04/06/2024 5:41:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Dan in Wichita

We’re not voting our way out of this.


21 posted on 04/06/2024 6:01:47 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m sure that at least 8 of the 10 ballots each democrat sends in will arrive on time.


22 posted on 04/06/2024 6:04:15 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The narrative is building to prepare the peasants for the chaos.

It’s like a video game...Grand Theft Election.


23 posted on 04/06/2024 6:04:58 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "Democracy" like throwing your opponents in jail.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How many pay raises have we given the USPS? Recently?

No improvement in the processing of mail and constant delays in deliveries. The Pony Express was faster.

These delays that everyone is experiencing are deliberate and on purpose. Any other reason is NOT acceptable.


24 posted on 04/06/2024 6:07:31 AM PDT by Dacula
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To: imabadboy99

I clearly remember on Election Night 1980 when NBC opened its election coverage. Nearly the first words out of the mouth of John Chancellor ... “We believe tonight will be a very good night for Governor Reagan...”, as the Gipper went on to win 44 states.


25 posted on 04/06/2024 6:15:03 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: imabadboy99
In Feb 2020, and for the first time in my life, I got a late payment notification from a merchant that I always pay by check. When I called them I was told that they sent HUNDREDS of late payment notices to customers who had never failed to pay promptly. I was told that late delivery was because of the mass of mail in ballots that the PO had to process.

If you remember ... a couple of months into 2021, the US post office announced nationwide that you should never again expect prompt delivery of mail (even first class mail) as had been the norm, previously.

Now, I have been making payments by mail weeks ahead of the due date for ALL accounts and I make CC payments AT the bank, to avoid the problems caused by inefficient postal service.

BTW - In Feb 2021, I sent a FED EX priority envelope from my city (in OH.) to Columbus Ohio. It was expensive and I asked what the delivery date would be. The clown at the PO said: "Oh, I can't tell you. I can't guarantee a delivery date."

THAT'S what he called 'priority' mail!!!!!! In all things, mediocrity is the new 'normal'.

26 posted on 04/06/2024 6:16:00 AM PDT by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
A top senator with oversight of the Postal Service, Gary Peters D, called on the agency last month to pause any further changes to its distribution network over fears the delays could worsen and spread.

Richmond General Registrar Keith Balmer told residents in February not to send their ballots for the March presidential primary by mail and to instead use one of three drop boxes in the city or to vote in person at an early voting location or a polling site on Election Day. For the upcoming election, Balmer said he will be strongly urging voters to use drop boxes.

“I understand that these issues extend beyond mere inconvenience; they represent a fundamental threat to our democracy,” Balmer said in a blog post on Feb. 26.

Peters and Balmer seem worried that the cheat machine won't be working smoothly

27 posted on 04/06/2024 6:18:01 AM PDT by Pollard ( Seed Room Wx: 66 degrees - 34% humidity)
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To: bgill

Do you suppose the drop boxes could spontaneously combust? ;)


28 posted on 04/06/2024 6:19:33 AM PDT by Pollard ( Seed Room Wx: 66 degrees - 34% humidity)
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To: SMARTY

*But only mail service in Red areas will be affected.* Think purple.

Ok people. We’ve signed on to mail-ins and harvesting. Defective counting machines? We’ll just have to hand deliver them to the county office EARLY. Doable.


29 posted on 04/06/2024 6:20:33 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
a new system the Postal Service began rolling out last fall that will eventually funnel all the nation’s letters and packages through a consolidated network of 60 regional distribution centers

I bet they'll all be close to a vote counting center.

30 posted on 04/06/2024 6:21:26 AM PDT by Pollard ( Seed Room Wx: 66 degrees - 34% humidity)
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To: VTenigma

Next step - vote by email. Much more convenient. Don’t worry about security. No one will cheat.


31 posted on 04/06/2024 6:22:14 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it n)
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To: Carriage Hill

My now long gone father in law worked for the post office. He said that the zip code was invented because they were hiring people that couldn’t read and it was a way to get the mail sorted so it could be delivered.


32 posted on 04/06/2024 6:22:56 AM PDT by Flint
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

COMCAST........ not credible source


33 posted on 04/06/2024 6:24:58 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: Rlsau1

This is “prep work” for the election.......gaslighting:
<><>Fake polls to make loser Joe’s winning appear somewhat plausible,
<><>inventing a dire situation necessitating vote-by-mail extremes,
<><>preparing us for postal delays in getting all those crucial mail-in ballots in place
<><>interminable counting until they reach the needed winnable numbers.


34 posted on 04/06/2024 6:26:19 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I live in a downstate Illinois metro area. The PO wants to shutdown the mail processing facility and have it done in Chicago. Both the the dem and rep congress women in the area are against this.


35 posted on 04/06/2024 6:26:23 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: Pollard

Postal unions now control the vote


36 posted on 04/06/2024 6:26:33 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Right.

Next step: open your veins and give them your blood


37 posted on 04/06/2024 6:26:41 AM PDT by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: Dacula

Right now the Letter Carrier Union is in arbitration with USPS for cost of living raise and pay raises throughout the four year contract. We didn’t get a COLA raise for 23-24, inflation was 3.4%, U.S. government worker equivalent to Letter Carrier received a pay raise of 5.1%. We have not had a contract since May of 2023. Last COLA was November of 2022.


38 posted on 04/06/2024 6:27:52 AM PDT by Ponyexpress9790 (Every one that votes democrat is your enemy, there is no co-existing with traitors and terrorists. )
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To: Carriage Hill

“EEOC and “diversity” hires are running that gov’t disaster. “

Actually if you go to the postal service website, and look at its leadership you will see a predominantly white and male group.

The current Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, is a white male appointed by President Donald Trump. If you go to the Postal Service website most of the senior executives appear to be white and mail — https://about.usps.com/who/leadership/pmg-exec-leadership-team.htm

The USPS Board of Governors also is predominantly white and male: https://about.usps.com/who/leadership/board-governors/


39 posted on 04/06/2024 6:30:07 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it n)
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To: antidemoncrat

Really? No!


40 posted on 04/06/2024 6:40:08 AM PDT by old-ager
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