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September 10, 2020 The Beacon • 5
Can the post office handle 100%
mail-in voting for this election?
Letter to the Editor:
How many people realize
your mail is sorted by
machine?
I retired from the USPS
in 2007 after 41 years.
When I worked, everything
considered first class
that came in was priority
one and went out the
same day. Not so now; getting
the carriers out of the
office is priority one. Mail
is rolled over to the next
day, even days, to keep the
man hours down. The less
time your office uses, the
bigger the bonus for the
postmaster.
Letter carriers put trays
of mail sorted by machines
in their vehicles, never
seeing what they have
until they are on the street
for delivery. Sometimes it
is not even their assigned
routes or even in the correct
order of delivery. This
is not the letter carrier’s
fault. No matter what state
you live and work in, your
tray will have missorted
mail from all 50 states.
Letter carriers now
are tracked by GPS and
have scan points along
the route and have to be
scanned by a certain time,
which is more important
than accurate delivery to
managers. Part-time carriers
borrowed from other
offices often deliver on
your assigned carrier’s day
off and have never been to
your city or town before
that day. This is why your
friends and neighbors
often get your mail and
you get theirs.
Missorted or missdelivered
mail has to
be returned to the mailprocessing
centers to be
sorted and redirected.
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Mail often just disappears,
especially mail you pay
extra for, expecting a confirmation
of that delivery.
Part-time carriers with
no expectation of being
promoted to a position for
retirement and health-care
benefits don’t really care
if the confirmation scans
are made. They know the
postal service is so mismanaged
and understaffed
at the entry level that
USPS needs them more
than they need USPS.
Due to COVID-19, many
postal workers are staying
home. The post offices are
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overwhelmed now.
If you think these
machines can handle the
influx of 100% mail-in
voting in all 50 states in the
next 90 days, you have no
clue about how the system
works. By the way, Nancy
Pelosi has been briefed
by the postal unions as to
exactly why it will benefit
her party to use mailin
voting. Postal unions
do not have the right to
strike, so they lobby Democrat
legislators to provide
money to cover postalservice
losses.
I am telling you today,
Aug. 5, 2020, if we go to
100% voting by mail, your
mail-in ballots will end up
in all 50 states across the
USA, not necessarily the
state you live and voted
in. By the time the mail
is sent to the processing
center to be redirected,
redelivered to the correct
address, the election will
be over, ballots discarded
and not counted because
the deadlines will have
passed.
Joel Styer
Coshocton
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