General Discussion

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!