2024 President Election: The Role of U.S. Postal Service
With eight days to go until the Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has announced a number of measures to ensure the ballots of every individual who chooses to vote by mail are delivered quickly and securely
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Washington: With eight days to go until the Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has announced a number of measures to ensure the ballots of every individual who chooses to vote by mail are delivered quickly and securely.
The United States Postal Service (USPS) at the same time is also taking all efforts in its hands to better its performance in the 2020 U.S. Elections.
"The Postal Service is fully ready to successfully deliver the nation's mail-in ballots for voters who choose to use us to vote.
"And to be clear, even for return ballots that are entered in our system after Tuesday, we will continue to deploy our "extraordinary measures," which are designed to accelerate the delivery of Ballot Mail in the final weeks of the election season", the U.S. postal department said.
In order to avoid last moment hiccup, the U.S. Postal Service has also recommended that voters who choose to vote by mail do so at their earliest.
"As we anticipate an uptick of ballots in the mail over the coming days, Postal Service employees are As in past elections, the Postal Service is ready to deliver your ballot on time. But don't delay. If you choose to vote by mail, please mail early as every day counts", the USPS said.
"We continue to recommend that it is a good common-sense measure for voters who choose to mail in their ballots to do so before Election Day and at least a week before their election office needs to receive them. If a ballot is due on Election Day, the Postal Service recommends mailing the ballot by this Tuesday (October 29)", the postal service said.
2024 General Election Statistics
The USPS said for the 2024 general election, its network is operating effectively without any major reported disruptions. "Service performance across the nation is strong", it said.
In the first three weeks of October, Ballot Mail performance scores were:
- 99.9 percent of ballots (combined: outbound from election officials to voters and inbound from voters to election officials) were delivered within a week (7 days).
- On average, the Postal Service delivered outbound ballots (to voters) in 2.0 days.
98.3 Percent of inbound ballots (from voters to election officials) were delivered within 3 days. - On average, the Postal Service delivered inbound ballots (from voters to election officials) in 1 day.
USPS Extraordinary Measures
In addition to the processes and procedures specific to Election Mail that the Postal Service deploys all year long, as in previous general elections, the Postal Service is deploying extraordinary measures in the final weeks of the election season to swiftly move Ballot Mail entered close to or on Election Day and/or the state's return deadline.
"Extraordinary measures began Monday Oct. 21, 2024 and will continue nationwide through Election Day (Tuesday, Nov. 5) and extend through the last day in each state that boards of elections will accept completed mail-in ballots as timely", the USPS said.
The USPS extraordinary measures are designed to accelerate and enhance the delivery of Ballot Mail, when the Postal Service is able to identify the mailpiece as a ballot.
The Postal Service's extraordinary measures include but are not limited to:
- Extra deliveries and collections
- Special pick-ups
- Specialized sort plans at processing facilities to expedite delivery to boards of elections
- Local handling and transportation of ballots.
"These measures are consistent with the Postal Service's efforts in the past elections", the USPS said.
The United States Postal Service is an independent federal establishment, mandated to be self-financing and to serve every American community through the affordable, reliable and secure delivery of mail and packages to 169 million addresses six and often seven days a week.
Americans are voting to elect the new President, and the fight is between Democratic Party candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris, and Republican Party candidate and former President Donald Trump.
As per the final survey, Harris and Trump both have been tied into a neck and neck battle with each of them projected to win 48% of the popular vote.
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