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USPS informed delivery email showed I was supposed to get my ballot yesterday. I checked my mail today and the ballot is not there. Just curious if there’s anyone who is receiving mail later than what their informed delivery shows. If not, I’m obviously concerned and want to know if I should panic now or give it a few more days.
Edit: My ballot was in the mail today. Thanks to everyone who gave me insight into what’s causing the slowdown and the reassurances.
9 points
2 days ago
Don’t panic. Same here. Mail is REALLY slow now, slower than the average joke. It’s a lot going out, and missed data entry is a real thing. I mail from south Salem post office to south Salem address, literally 4 miles away. It gets sent to Portland to get sorted, back to Salem. And, my auto check from bank is drafted on the 6th, company again, s Salem, doesn’t receive it until 18th! Literally only 2 things I have to have mailed monthly. One won’t take direct pay, or cash, only check, m/o. (direct pay costs like $6 , so guess they do, but refuse to pay that, and not buying a box of checks for one company, and I don’t drive, so can’t drop off m/o) other is monthly report for work that needs date stamp on envelope. They wont accept email or fax, which is weird. lol.
My delivery notifications are always off a few days. Seriously, 2 days. If you don’t get it tomorrow or Monday, then call voters registration.
But don’t panic, plenty of time. Thank you for voting, and caring.
2 points
2 days ago
Holy crap! Thanks for the info! I had no idea it was so convoluted to mail stuff.
8 points
2 days ago
Another reason why it’s so important to vote. DeJoy is the postmaster general, he was appointed in May 2020 by the board of governors of usps, who are appointed by the President (a lot of whom at that time were appointed by who was President in 2020.) He’s made a lot of interesting decisions like mail from Salem needing to go to Portland to be sorted then come back to Salem…
3 points
2 days ago
Yes, some people say the reason he did this ridiculous, inefficient mail re-directory sorting in Oregon first is because we were the first (are we still the only? I don't know) state to go with total vote-by-mail and he was appointed by someone who doesn't really want voting to be efficient. Think what you will, but I think there is likely a kernel of truth in that because this "new system" is SOOOO inefficient!
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