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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, doesn't anyone think that the current pandemic is affecting mail volume and delivery?  If I recall correctly, it has shot through the roof since March.  Much of that delivery is package delivery, not flat mail.

For all those objecting, this is exactly why we can't do 100% mail in voting right now.  The USPS just isn't set up for the potential flat mail volume when it must ensure that packages get through, including grandma's medication.

Or would you prefer that the USPS delay packages and let grandma die because you're too lazy to get off the couch to vote in person, but you'll get up to go protest at the height of the pandemic?[/quote]

The USPS handled 142 billion pieces of non-package mail last year. There is about 260 million people of voting age in the US. Even if every single one of those people sent in a ballot, that's still only 260 million pieces of mail, most of which is sent locally to single-points, rather than widely dispersed nationally. To give you some context, the USPS handles about 6 billion Christmas cards annually.

Any ballot volume is simply noise to the USPS. Worrying about this amount of mail is making a mountain out of a Chipotle Burrito. [/quote]

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