USPS must be taking that ruling about ballots being priority mail seriously.

[kas125]

We mailed our ballots at the post office yesterday around noon. They go to the next town over. Checked the voter portal just now and it says they were received yesterday!

[soothsayer]

1. Great!

[DonaldsRump]

2. Sunlight is the best disinfectant

Most USPS personnel are fine people except a toady like DeJoy. However, DeJoy commands the USPS so he is chiefly responsible for what could have happened. I am hoping we have averted it because he was exposed to sunlight and therefore disinfected.

We must cause "good trouble" the moment we see an issue, as our beloved John Lewis said (and did in real life).

We have to fight for every inch of ground now. Do not let up for one second.

[DrToast]

3. Great!

Can you track if your ballot was accepted and your vote counts?

[kas125]

8. They did say that if there's a problem with it

we'll be notified in time to correct whatever the mistake is.

[sheshe2]

9. Everyone can.

My link was Track your vote MA. Not the exact wording. I have it written down. I dropped my ballot at the town hall on a Friday, checked on Saturday and it was accepted. This was for our state primaries a few weeks ago. Senator Markey won!

People have listed specific links for other states.

[Bobstandard]

4. The folks at my PO...

Are all about doing what it takes to keep the mail moving and especially, to screw Trum by any means possible. (We talk)

[liberalla]

5. That's excellent! what part of the country do you live in?

[kas125]

6. I was pretty surprised, I didn't expect it to be there yet.

I live in NW Indiana.

[Sherman A1]

7. Ours arrived today

with yesterday being the first day that they could be mailed out in our state. I am pleased thus far.

[kas125]

10. I'm pretty pleased, too. Ours were mailed to us Friday and arrived

Monday. We mailed them back Tuesday and they got them the same day. I'm so relieved.

[Sherman A1]

21. We will get ours done shortly

There is a ballot measure or two that I want to be sure about before filling out the ballot.

[Wounded Bear]

11. Great. Ours are due here around Oct 14...

I should be able to get them to the drop box by the 20th. Not sure about local offices and possible state initiatives, so it will take a couple of days. But we do VBM here full time.

If they flip my state, you will know they're cheating. WA.

[Tommymac]

12. Yup. For the past week we have been getting regular mail again.

Before that, since June, it was spotty, many days we got nothing at all, and packages ran days if not weeks late.

Immediately noticed the difference.

BTW I am in the Pittsburgh area.

[warmfeet]

13. That is good news.

Unfortunately, this result may not be uniform across the country. My absentee ballot was received one day after it was mailed (we can track our ballots in Minnesota). My wife received her ballot three days later. We live at the same address and requested our ballots on the same day. To me, that seems a bit odd.

[2naSalit]

14. Just because...

I was at the county seat today so I stopped in at the registrar's office to confirm my status. Took as long as it takes to spell my name and say my address.

I will have a mail-in ballot coming and I will be turning it in at the registrar's office.

[gristy]

15. That's nice to hear

And perhaps anything different would have been a surprise, since, as they say, "this isn't their first rodeo!"

[2naSalit]

17. I have never had a problem with

voting by mail in this state before and don't expect any issues here this time. I know the folks in the office personally, one I've known for over ten years, we lived in the same town before in another county.

[jorgevlorgan]

16. Yeah

Trump is screwed.


These are going to be the first votes counted in most states.

[grobertj]

18. Don't you think Post Office employees are PISSED!!!

They want to get rid of Trump as much as we do!

[soldierant]

34. By and large, I think that's true

Of course theer's no accounting for her mentality.

[AllyCat]

19. I still haven't received mine even though clerk says it was mailed a week ago.

Mr AC got his on Saturday.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

20. What are the demographics of your zip code?

That might determine which votes get “lost”.

I’m voting early, in person, at a time when the pollls aren’t busy.

[kas125]

26. Ours is a blue county in a big red state.

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According to google my town's demographics are - Black or African American: 44.43% White: 41.09% Other race: 7.20%

[pwb]

22. Postal Unions move the mail. Nobody can stop it.

Postal workers take an oath.

[tclambert]

23. Good, as long as they didn't arrive before you mailed them.

Tears a hole in the spacetime continuum when that happens.

[aeromanKC]

24. USPS Union endorsed Biden!!

They are with us!!

[Tess49]

25. Mailed mine on Sunday. It was received on Monday.

[VicNEO]

27. Story in CLE

So. Short story.
Looks like sorters back in place in CLE
We have now been receiving machine sorted mail
How do I know?
Obv a machine “ate” part of mail.
The mail that was mauled- usually comes in 8 x 5 envelope. It was shredded. Only 6x4 existed.
Is this ok???

(And don’t get me started on govt mail received with pre-date on it...started in early August).

[Midnight Writer]

28. We used to pick out items like ballots, property tax payments, etc. and make direct bundles of them.

That way we could send these "priority" mail pieces directly to the County Clerk's office and bypass the Mail Processing Plants and the sorting machines.

We would put them on the next truck going directly to the County Seat.

Oh, I am an ex Postal Worker.

[kas125]

29. I was an 89 day casual one summer when I was young.

Worked in a big sorting center with a mean, horrible boss and lasted until I had about a week and a half left before I just couldn't stand it one more minute and quit. I've regretted that move a million times since then.

I figured that they had to have picked them out and sent them directly to the government center because they got there the same day. The people at our post office are great. One time when I was taking care of my dad, who was terminally ill at the time, I was doing his errands, one of which was to mail a big envelope. I went to the outside boxes at the post office and dropped his envelope in, only to discover when I got home that I still had that envelope, but the envelope of his pictures I'd picked up at the Walgreens by the post office was missing. Somehow I threw the pictures into the mailbox instead of whatever it was that I was supposed to mail. I called them, they asked which box, and they had the pictures waiting for me when I got there ten minutes later.

[Midnight Writer]

37. I've fetched many an item accidentally "mailed". It's common and sometimes hours until they notice.

I started part-time, hoping to make enough to go back to school, but then they offered me a full time job with all the bennies and I ended up staying.

I can't speak of the big sorting centers, but I worked in a lot of smaller offices, and the people really are great.

[futureliveshere]

30. Secrecy Envelope

Hope you put it in the secrecy envelope

[kas125]

35. Here it's not even an envelope, it's a trifold piece of

cardstock that's sealed on one end and open on the other. But yeah, I put it in there.

[yuiyoshida]

31. I should get my ballot Oct 1st or near there

Damn straight i am voting and checking it afterwards as well.

[Illumination]

32. Yeah well I still don't trust NoJoy, He's just another Trump criminal that needs to be dealt

with for his crimes!...

[Awsi Dooger]

33. I'm worried about USPS and House races in California

Everything sent to me USPS from California and particularly Los Angeles area has ridiculous delays. Obscene delays. There are many House races in California we took away in 2018 by narrow margin. But it requires huge national tilt again to hold those seats.

As soon as I saw the national map of all the removed USPS machines it was obvious the GOP had targeted House districts in California. But it was mostly ignored due to fixation on presidential only. If ballots aren't mailed back early enough in those pivotal races there could be some self-inflicted upset defeats. The GOP knows darn well it has far greater opportunity to reclaim the House in 2022 if some of the California districts are peeled away this time.

None of that USPS crap was accidental. There need to be warnings about this in California.

[KelleyKramer]

36. You mailed it yesterday and it got there yesterday?

You mailed it at noon yesterday and they received it yesterday.

That's less than 5 hours delivery time

That doesn't seem possible

[I_UndergroundPanther]

38. I'm still waiting for my ballot

I live in Maryland.