Over the past three years, as mail volume continued to plummet and annual deficits ballooned, the Postal Service started consolidating the processing of first-class mail at larger regional plants instead of at smaller hubs closer to local post offices. Then, in a little-noted switch that mostly took effect after the 2024 election, the agency cut the frequency of mail pickups in half at many post offices 50 miles or more from these processing plants, from twice daily to once.
The changes often added a day or more to delivery time and, most importantly for ballots, pushed back postmarking, which doesn’t happen until mail reaches the regional centers.
I knew that they had switched postmarking to the regional centers, and that they wanted to do more processing at regional centers. I hadn’t put those two facts together. Nor did I know that they had decreased pickup frequency.
And Dems actually warned republicans they would see disadvantages with their election inferences.
rural areas are mostly republicans, so its mostly hurting them, if not 100%
it would be something like recoil damage.
Aww. I hope they get everything the voted for either way.
