{"id":49963,"date":"2016-09-30T17:40:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/?p=49963"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:42:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:42:55","slug":"delayed-postal-delivery-means-wasted-absentee-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/delayed-postal-delivery-means-wasted-absentee-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Delayed Postal Delivery Means Wasted Absentee Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Steve Pociask – September 29, 2016<\/strong>
\n\"vote-ballot\"US Postal Service (USPS) consumers are seeing declining service standards<\/a><\/span>. They know their packages don\u2019t arrive on time. What they may not realize, however, is that this may also cost them their vote.<\/p>\n

38 states require absentee ballots to be received by election day. However, USPS rules have changed and that first class letter mail, like absentee ballots which were once consistently delivered the next day in the same community, are now routed through distant regional processing centers. These centers are often in different states and hundreds of miles away.<\/p>\n

If that isn\u2019t bad enough, despite setting more relaxed quality and delivery standards, a recent post office inspector general\u2019s report<\/a><\/span> showed a 51% increase in mail processing delays. In short, USPS has lowered the bar for success and then dramatically missed the new lower bar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source \/ More:\u00a0 Forbes.com<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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By Steve Pociask – September 29, 2016 US Postal Service (USPS) consumers are seeing declining service standards. They know their packages don\u2019t arrive on time. What they may not realize, however, is that this may also cost them their vote. 38 states require absentee ballots to be received by election day. However, USPS rules have…<\/p>\n

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