{"id":1822833,"date":"2023-01-25T04:04:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T09:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1822833"},"modified":"2023-01-25T04:05:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T09:05:50","slug":"mangled-remains-of-a-christmas-card-got-delivered-a-month-after-the-holiday-but-im-to-believe-the-usps-can-handle-my-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mangled-remains-of-a-christmas-card-got-delivered-a-month-after-the-holiday-but-im-to-believe-the-usps-can-handle-my-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangled Remains Of A Christmas Card Got Delivered A Month After The Holiday, But I\u2019m To Believe The USPS Can Handle My Ballot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">46<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmangled-remains-of-a-christmas-card-got-delivered-a-month-after-the-holiday-but-im-to-believe-the-usps-can-handle-my-ballot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1822833&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>While retrieving a couple of days\u2019 worth of mail over the weekend, I discovered a curious delivery in my box. It was a Christmas gift card that I had been waiting for but never received.<\/p>\n<p>It was actually a mangled envelope, which had once contained a Christmas card. The stamp was stamped with a random stamp. \u201cDELIVER TO ADDRESSEE WITHOUT CONTENTS\u201d message, and then stuffed in a baggie sealed by the United States Postal Service with a preprinted apology message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWE CARE,\u201d The government courier assured me that despite the lack of evidence, it was true before I wrote:<\/p>\n<p>Dear Postal Customer <\/p>\n<p>We are sorry for the damage caused to your mail by the Postal Service. We apologize for any inconvenience this caused. We understand that your mail is important and you have every right expect it to arrive in good condition. <\/p>\n<p>Despite every effort to avoid damage to mail, sometimes this is inevitable due to the large volume of mail handled and the fast processing methods that must be used to ensure the fastest distribution.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you understand\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Your Postmaster<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bit frustrating that my dear, faraway friend spent some 60-odd cents to send me an empty, torn-open envelope that was dropped off in a sandwich bag a month after Christmas (and, the way people time their seasonal greetings, probably two months after it was supposed to arrive). I still love my friend. \u201cunderstand,\u201d Mr. Postmaster, that life isn\u2019t perfect. Our world is crazy and fallen, with both human and machine error. The USPS isn\u2019t exempt, and neither am I.<\/p>\n<p>However, I understand that my Christmas cards are the least-risk mail that the Postal Service has to handle. Ranking above them are sympathy cards and cash-carrying birthday notes, followed by wedding invitations and paychecks, tax documents, passports and immigration papers, and \u2014 crucially \u2014 election ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Like my late and empty Christmas envelope, delayed mail-in ballots cause potential election-tipping quantities to miss deadlines. In Pennsylvania\u2019s June 2020 primary, for instance, the pace of voting by mail kept <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/politics\/election\/pa-mail-ballot-deadlines-disenfranchisement-20200730.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tens of thousands of people<\/a> After successfully casting a poll. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/california-rejected-100000-mail-in-ballots-because-of-mistakes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More than 100,000<\/a> mail-in ballots were rejected during California\u2019s presidential primary the same year, mostly for missing arrival or postmark deadlines. And though sometimes the ballot rejections are the fault of a voter\u2019s procrastination, as NPR reported in a 2020 article titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/07\/13\/889751095\/signed-sealed-undelivered-thousands-of-mail-in-ballots-rejected-for-tardiness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Signed, Sealed, Undelivered<\/a>,\u201d Vote-by mail failures are \u201coften through no fault of the voter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New York City\u2019s disastrous 2020 Democratic primary offers another cautionary tale about voting-by-Post Office. As my colleague John Daniel Davidson <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/08\/10\/the-trouble-with-mail-in-voting-might-not-be-fraud-but-government-incompetence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> It was:<\/p>\n<p> [T]For the June 23 Democratic Primary, more than 84,000 postal ballots were thrown out by the Board of Elections. This was out of nearly 319,000 total mail-in votes, which is about 21 percent of all invalid ballots. \u2026 What\u2019s more,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/six-weeks-later-election-officials-declare-winners-in-two-ny-democratic-primaries\/2020\/08\/04\/851ddfa0-d67e-11ea-aff6-220dd3a14741_story.html\">it took six weeks to declare a winner<\/a>\u00a0In two closely viewed Democratic congressional elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My incoming Christmas cards are a low-risk piece of mail. 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