General Discussion

and noted when they were postmarked, etc. Enough to know there's no way people should have the expectation that something you put in your mailbox in front of your house is going to be postmarked on that day, and I've even seen times where the postmark date was closer to the delivery day than the day I mailed it. I can't imagine anyone is out in the USA thinking the postmark IS the day that any USPS worker took physical custody (i.e. received) their post, with any sort of certainty. It is VERY often not that exact day, and frankly everyone should know this, but if they don't we need to teach EVERYONE

As an aside, I'd suspect if USPS is going to get more lackadaisical about it (which I'm not convinced they're saying they are here but if someone knows for a fact otherwise, I'm all ears!), it's most likely because it's cheaper for them, being less 'steps' in the process.

Most importantly like I say, the other horrors described by the story here are more menacing/a bigger concern. We can get around this postmark problem here just by being personally responsible and sending our ballots in early. MHO, fwiw