Mail carriers have been told to "slow down",

[Grokenstein]

17. Chicago is being deliberately bottlenecked. Personal examples:

Several weeks ago, I ordered a package from the UK. Four days to ship from London to Chicago; then it switched to USPS and took ten days to get from Chicago to the San Francisco Bay Area. Tracking was "unavailable" until it arrived. That was in the early stage.

More recently, bought a book on eBay. Shipped with tracking from Indiana on the 16th, hit Chicago the next day. Poof! It's gone! Just turned up this morning in Idaho...almost two full weeks later.

Shipments passing through anywhere else: no delays. Stuff sent from Houston or Atlanta arrives in two days. Going through Chicago? At the rate things are going, by next week it'll take a month.

And I have zero doubt the slowdown will be deliberately spread to every hub well before the election.

Mail early--and spread the word to every forum.