UH-OH: The slowest mail in the country is in key swing states, NBC investigations finds (1 Viewer)

[Noah Pransky]

In 2020, when the United States Postal Service began an ambitious plan to modernize and consolidate services – in the middle of the pandemic – its slow service wound up disenfranchising tens of thousands of voters whose ballots never made it to their elections offices in time.

Four years later – by some measures – USPS performance is now actually worse, with another nail-biter of an election fast-approaching.

Compounding the risk that slow mail could affect the election: NBC found some of the country’s slowest mail is in presidential swing states...

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