It is indeed an outrageous abuse of power to degrade the USPS in order to prevent ballots from being delivered. But degrading the USPS during a pandemic that's made us more dependent than ever on robust delivery services is a special kind of outrage in and of itself.
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It's also worth noting that there's a very nasty positive feedback loop here: if enough people believe (rightly or wrongly) that USPS service has degraded or is unreliable, they'll stop using it, which will reduce their revenue, further degrading the service going forward.
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I'm a little reluctant to amplify anecdotes about USPS mishaps for this reason.
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Also, Trump is claiming widespread use of vote by mail would require expanding USPS capacity. But it wouldn't. Even if every voter requested & cast ballots by mail, that's a drop in the bucket in terms of overall mail volume. All vote by mail requires is EXISTING postal capacity.
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In the worst case, vote-by-mail requires three pieces of mail, at different times: a request from the voter, a ballot package to the voter, and a returned ballot from the voter. That's very little new mail. And places (like Oregon) that currently do default mail voting do fine.
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Where you might need extra mail handling capacity is in the county election office, but that's not part of the USPS.
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Bulk mailers send far more mail on any given day than election offices do. For an a sense of how much, look in your mailbox.
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I refuse to believe that a country that could once deliver 15 pound doxxing books/business directories to every porch in the country can't handle vote by mail.
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