"Reminder! To ensure an on-time postmark, we recommend mailing your ballot by the Friday before Election Day."
Luckily, up here in WA state, we also have drop off boxes.
DeJoy has completely f---ed up what used to be the wonderful US Postal system.

And their drop box is inside the building.

We cannot take a chance that any of our votes not getting counted!!

wants to cheat his way in again. like Orrex posts "is he dead yet?"

Edit: Nevermind maybe it does work that way here, I just never noticed because I always use the "Subscribed" (My Subs) forums or the "Latest Discussions" functions. When you mix the forums in this view, kicking doesn't work like this, but if you go straight to the forum, it does. My bad on that!!!

TY for pointing it out.

It does work if someone specifically visits the GD Forum index itself, but does not for the forum aggregating functions like My Subs or Latest Discussions which are how I use DU. My bad! Kick away!

I don't even know why anyone would assume it would be, that's what not a postmark is, so this article (and esp. the headline) doesn't really make much sense to me

DeJoy sucks of course but this is not a change in the postmarking process. Mail your ballots early like the instructions on every one I've ever seen says that you should do, and you'll be fine. Or drop it off somewhere that you know it will be counted if you're running late, don't mail it. You can also show up to the polling place in some states with your mail-in or absentee ballot in hand, hand it over, and get a new ballot to use there.

Louis DeJoy is no longer Postmaster General. He resigned in March, 2025, and has been replaced by David Steiner, a former CEO of Waste Management and a FedEx board member.

But yeah now that you mention it I do recall when that happened. Thanks!

THIS is why Trump put a total tool in charge of the USPS. He and Miller knew there would come a time when they really had to prevent ballots from being counted.

Official county drop off boxes, particularly the ones inside official buildings.
Some of us in our county, where supervisors try to stop our ballots from being counted in state totals by refusing to do lawful required duty to certify the vote count, have considered doing motorcade drives en masse to the county building where our county recorder's office is. It would work with lots of retirees who have the time during business hours. Especially effective if we get some of the local TV station reporters to come along. (so, make it a point to be on your local station's reporters radar, give em scoops so they will take your calls)

It is too under the radar. It is guaranteed to disenfranchise certain ballots. New Chicanery between now and then could be even worse, even to the point of suddenly "privatizing" the entire service and throwing the entire ballot system into convenient inconvenience to all voters. The fact we have to look out for our ballots in DU misses the main point that many if not most voters are/will be ignorant of this utterly needless"reduced standard". Where are our Dems on the Postal oversight committees? Where is the party's competence for political survival by protecting the vote? Are we STILL expecting a media-suppressed blue wave deluge to wipe out all our worries? Getting back enough swing voters to eke out a small majority, maybe claw back a few gerrymandered states?

Trump leans heavily though stupidly on cheating of all types. It would be nice to counter SOME of them- and the reptiles enabling them.

the pushing off of a final date DOES negate a lot of efforts by all postal employees, top to bottom to find and date the ballots on that LAST day, whether they are cancelled or not. Arriving mail is forcibly delayed after a certain time depending on your area- which most people are not aware of. The cancellation machines are simply shut down way earlier than they have to be. Why? The mail DELIVERY will be delayed anyway. This forces them to be cancelled the next day and AGAIN be delayed for processing until the day after for delivery- the next day after that! Consolidation of operations is even crueler to misaddressed election materials being sent hundreds of miles to fewer centers for correction and re-entry to entire process- from a distance with little power to address local issues with those pieces.

For those worried about election mail ending up in waste bins or the odd good pieces trapped in such, it too is shipped far out of sight of anything approaching local care. You have no idea how we saved and sequestered even badly addressed campaign mail before losing this power completely. How we sent last minute ballots by free Express delivery and dated every one.

Mail ballots and bill payments earlier than you would a Christmas card!

hand-stamped postal date but they must go to a postal employee at the post office and request it. Is that accurate? If so, it would be more hassle, but something that has to be done.

it could be quashed easily at anytime because this is a FORCED delay fixed in stone, an entire change in principle how mail is accepted and moved. It is inherently criminal(though of course "legalized" and even the slightest effect will cloud the unwary voters and insure further assault and lack of confidence in delivery date and time.

I have seen many instances of unequal treatment of mail delivery simply because of the place, the machine schedule, small towns outside main processing schemes, that the public has NO idea about. And we've never been sued since the 2008 lowering of delivery commitments to make things "more efficient". Manual mail, corrected mail has less and less commitment. Mostly the focus of the day is packages which is supplemented with messy additions of broken up bundles of magazines and circulars that sort of push up the volume while slowing down the system.

OK, enough.

But some people decide on their ballot late or forget or procrastinate.

Start opening and counting the ballots upon receipt. Don't wait until the end of election day to start opening the mailed ballots. I think it would create more excitement for mailing early ballots if they did this.

The mailed ballots could be processed, and counted, ready to add to the total once the polls close. Instead, they sit untouched, sometimes for weeks, until after the polls have closed and reported results.

Instead of mailing.

I was accustomed to them while living in Rhode Island, but I now live in South Carolina where they are not permitted. I miss the convenience.

Or something….

I am so sick of all this.

Prof. Hasen thinks that this change will affect vote by mail ballots.

“Postmark change could impact getting ballots, bills in on time” electionlawblog.org?p=153676

— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) 2026-01-01T17:25:38.079Z