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Freelancer

(2,107 posts) Wed Oct 28, 2020, 11:47 PM Oct 2020

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This late people shouldn't be mailing their ballots anymore. LisaL Oct 2020 #1

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The first is when some SS checks go out. Not a good idea. DLCWIdem Oct 2020 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Oct 2020 #4

Are you aware that ALL SS "checks" are actually direct deposits? PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2020 #6

Really? When the Post office delivers some PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2020 #5

LisaL

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1. This late people shouldn't be mailing their ballots anymore.

Reply to Freelancer (Original post)

Wed Oct 28, 2020, 11:52 PM

Oct 2020

They need to drop them off in drop boxes or whatever their state allows that doesn't involve USPS.

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DLCWIdem

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3. The first is when some SS checks go out. Not a good idea.

Reply to Freelancer (Original post)

Wed Oct 28, 2020, 11:59 PM

Oct 2020

It is impractical and those ballots will most likely not make it at this late date. We have to tell them to drop them off in a ballot box or return them to county courts office.

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PoindexterOglethorpe

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6. Are you aware that ALL SS "checks" are actually direct deposits?

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Thu Oct 29, 2020, 02:23 AM

Oct 2020

It's been that way for a very long time now.

Oh, and depending on your date of birth, they arrive on the first or the second or the third or the fourth Wednesday of the month.

PoindexterOglethorpe

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5. Really? When the Post office delivers some

Reply to Freelancer (Original post)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 02:22 AM

Oct 2020

400 million plus piece of mail EVERY SINGLE DAY? That's a lot more than the number of registered voters in this country. Not all of them vote by mail. And those that do, don't mail their ballots in on the same day.

So it's total BULLSHIT that not mailing things will help.

Oh, and do you want to know how many extra pieces of mail are handled at Christmas? No? I'll just say a fuck of a lot more than the average daily mailing, with or without ballots.

So DO NOT try to "help" the USPS by cutting back on mail. Dear lord.

A couple of weeks back someone I know posted on FB to stop mail ordering stuff, and then confessed to ordering several more things. Hmmm. Three or four mail orders. One ballot. Let me think about that.