MORE USPS FUCKERY
The USPS just changed the meaning of a postmark. Under the old rules, when you dropped the mail off at the post office was the postmark date.
Now, the postmark is the date your mail was first processed by an automated center.
If you drop your mail off Monday but it doesn't get processed until Wednesday, Wednesday is the new postmark date.
Yes, this can affect taxes, healthcare, and-- not coincidentally, I'm sure-- ELECTIONS.
nstp.org/article/usps-announce…
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.nstp.org
feld
in reply to Scary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS! • • •but this is how it always was. If you drop your mail off into their possession (big blue drop box) but they don't pick it up until tomorrow and process it at the local post office, the postmark is tomorrow not today ...
Yes they will absolutely use this as a way to sceew with mail in ballots by disrupting processing of those too close to the deadline (understaff, shutdown USPS, etc) and now there will be little chance of successfully challenging it. At this point Trump could legally fire EVERYONE at USPS weeks before the election to screw everyone over too and he probably will.
feld
in reply to feld • • •i guess another example is if you drop off late Saturday it wouldn't be postmarked until Monday. If Monday is a holiday, now its Tuesday ...
I guess we have to expect postmark can be up to 4 days in the future now with centralized processing -- or more if they play dirty politics