People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
RULES:
If you want to vote by mail please do so as soon as you can and consider dropping it off at the counter where they will postmark it right away.
Even then you have to request it. The term you need to ask for is "hand canceling". The USPS worker will take a handheld ink stamp and mark over the postage stamp with the received date. That letter is now "processed" as received by the post office.
They've cheated before, they'll do it again. It's like playing whack-a-mole trying to get around it.
Majorly affects anyone who mails their tax forms
Right now, first class mail to homes in the Chicago area is taking two WEEKS to arrive due to holiday increases. I don't think it'd be this bad at tax or voting deadlines, but it's good to know what kind of variability you can expect, especially with all of the changes made to the US postal service since 2017.
Weeks? Fucking how? I work at a post office and today our OIC was running around with her hair on fire because the mail was three days late on one route.
If you don't know when it is going to be stamped, then you cannot possibly plan accordingly. Trying to be early to get around the unreliable time frame isn't planning accordingly, it is just guessing.
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A post from bluesky stating "As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties." Another user commented on the post "this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)".
this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting
This is specifically for doing that. Processing centers will be understaffed in heavily Democratic areas, Republican strongholds will have mail that magically gets a stamp fifteen nanoseconds later. Republicans can literally not win without resorting to cheating.
They don't even need to understaff them, that shit is all automated these days. Just manufacture a breakdown and voila.
Here in Colorado we vote by mail, in person or, relevant to this development, we are allowed to drop a ballot into an actual ballot container. It's like a mailbox but only unlocked during elections.
Great for suburbanites like me but in rural districts might be a bit of a hike.
Have the same thing out here in California.
Welp, I'll be forwarding this to the people I know that send in their votes by mail, to make sure they get the ballots mailed in within a few days of getting them.
More to the point, I wonder how many MAGA farts will see their ballots tossed because of this? MOST of the older conservative voters I know use mail in ballots.
Who's got the popcorn?
And then if Dems win, guess who they'll say cheated.
This will make it easier for nefarious parties to just hold onto mail as long as possible before stamping it.
Interesting that this is even relevant in the US.
Here in Germany the only relevant metric is whether a document has arrived at the recipient before any given deadline, from ballots to legal documents. It is considered your responsibility to ensure sending anything sufficiently early.
Wow. That's subject to abuse though unless there is a maintained predictable transit time. Maintaining a timestamp for the handoff is a critical tracking metric.
