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Breaking Down What’s Going on With the USPS and Missing Ballots
Photo: The Toidi (Shutterstock) I was really hoping that I would be done writing about election mail on Election Day, but as you can see, I don’t always get what I want. The United States Postal Service keeps on generating controversy, mainly due to early data that shows the USPS may have not delivered up …
San Francisco store owner witnesses mailbox break-in, fears ballots may have been discarded
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — The owner of a corner store in San Francisco says he witnessed a thief breaking into a mailbox early Friday morning Surveillance cameras captured what happened outside Reliance Market at 20th and Castro streets. A person appears to “fish” for items inside the mailbox. Reliance Market’s owner saw the crook drop …
USPS debuts election information site and plans to send letters to ‘every American’ amid vote-by-mail furor
Also on Friday, USPS rolled out a new election website with information for voters and election officials on how to properly vote by mail this fall. A record number of Americans are expected to utilize postal voting because of the coronavirus pandemic, due to fears of contracting the virus at polling places. “The American public …
Top Democrats dubious after postmaster general backs off USPS changes for now: ‘Nice try’
House Democrats cast doubt about Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s announcement Tuesday that he’s delaying postal changes until after the election and will press forward with a vote Saturday to outlaw disruptions to mail service. “Well, we’re going to make sure in law that that is the case,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said Tuesday of DeJoy’s reversal …
Several states considering legal action against Trump administration over USPS and mail-in voting
At least a half dozen states including Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia are said to be reviewing their legal options against the administration. The Washington Post first reported that attorneys general from Virginia, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Washington state and North Carolina, among others, are discussing potentially joining forces to sue the Trump administration. “We’re considering …
USPS HQ won’t say if decision by Western district to stop removing letter collection boxes is still in effect
Rod Spurgeon, a USPS spokesperson for the service’s Western region, told CNN on Friday night that postal employees in 16 states and parts of two others would stop the removal of letter collection boxes until after the election. But it’s unclear whether or not the policy confirmed by Spurgeon is still in effect or if …
Zebra’s Scanning Technology Helps the USPS Modernize
Text size Photograph by Andrew Burton/Getty Images The U.S. Postal Service is modernizing and putting more of its resources toward parcel shipping, where volume is growing, and less on shrinking letter mailing. The post office announced a deal this week for 300,000 hand-held computing devices to be supplied by Zebra Technologies (ticker: ZBRA). The move …