Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
State and local election officials from across the country on Wednesday warned that problems with the nation’s mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential ...
A bipartisan group of two Kansas and three Missouri members of Congress signed a joint letter urging the U.S. Postal Service to address persistent problems with mail delivery in the greater Kansas ...
But the Postal Service’s challenges date back much further than this year’s Palmetto facility problems. USPS, led by pugnacious Postmaster General Louis DeJoy since 2020, has faced serious ...
The crisis stems primarily from changes implemented by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy shortly after taking office in June 2020. [1][2][3] The delays have had substantial legal, political, economic, and health repercussions. [1][2][4][5][6] On August 18, 2020, under heavy political and legal pressure, DeJoy announced that he would be "suspending ...
U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy assured state election officials in a letter released Monday that he'll work with them to handle their warnings of problems with election mail delivery during the primary season, while insisting that the Postal Service will be ready for the flood of mail-in ballots ahead of the November election.
The Postal Service's standard for on-time delivery of first-class mail is three to five days, and DeJoy has said the average is 2.7 days. Schwab has said about 1,000 mail ballots from the state's Aug. 6 primary election couldn't be counted because they arrived too late or were not postmarked.
Postal delivery problems underscore the potential consequences of the drop-box battle. Voting rights advocates want an all-of-the-above approach to casting a ballot. But if the GOP-controlled ...
Postal service in the United States began with the delivery of stampless letters whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and provisional post offices, and culminated in a system of universal prepayment that required all letters to bear nationally issued adhesive postage stamps.