Postmaster general is confident about ability to process mail-in ballots

[RandySF]

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has a message for America: The U.S. Postal Service is ready for a flood of election mail and is better positioned to do so than it was four years ago.

The Postal Service has been undergoing rapid changes, including the opening of large hubs, but some of those changes are being paused before the election to ensure they don’t interfere with performance, DeJoy said. And it will be all hands on deck to ensure the millions of mail-in ballots are delivered swiftly to their destinations.

“We’re going to be in great shape for the election. I’m pretty confident about everything that were doing,” DeJoy told The Associated Press ahead of an official rundown Thursday of election mail practices. “The American people should be confident.”

It’s a far cry from four years ago, when DeJoy, just a few months into the job, was being criticized as a Donald Trump crony who was dismantling mail-processing machines and removing blue postal boxes to undermine the election as Trump, the president at the time, sowed distrust in the Postal Service. Despite being excoriated, DeJoy’s Postal Service performed admirably under a crush of mail-in votes during the pandemic, and strongly pushed back against what they said were false claims of any intentional effort to damage the postal service before the 2020 election.




https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-mail-ballots-postal-service-1fd285fd56f640a370d155d25458c423

[Think. Again.]

1. ...

[barbtries]

2. my plan

is to vote in person on the first day of early voting.

I don't trust this man. it's one of the things I don't get: why Biden kept him on.

[Grown2Hate]

3. I'll be honest. And don't take this as me

being a fan of DeJoy (absolutely not).

But living in AZ, I've ALWAYS requested my ballot early and mailed to me, and ALWAYS dropped it into a box, at a polling place, on Election Day.

The past couple years, I started testing it. First in Primaries. Just mail it in. I always get an email and a text that it's been received. Then counted. All within a couple of days.

Maybe that speaks more to the efficiency of AZ elections than it does the Post Office under DeJoy overall. But it kinda won my trust, either way.

[wryter2000]

4. Mail in has worked for me in CA. n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

5. I'm not taking any chances.

I have a mail-in ballot. I literally taking it to the Election Board in my county seat, signing the book, and leaving with an official. This election is too important.

[Jmb 4 Harris-Walz]

6. I would normally do mail-in ballot as well, however, I don't trust that Trump won't attempt to stop the count again

with the same lame excuse as in 2020. I know he’s not the current President and wouldn’t have as much sway as back in 2020 but he’s got so many puppets throughout congress and the Supreme Court.

The crazier this all gets, the more I feel for the people of Venezuela. I truly do not understand how something like this can be happening in America in 2024, it’s just mind-boggling to me.