Postal Service Delivered Vast Majority of Ballots on Time

[Frodo]

Though only after public scrutiny was put on it in the months leading up to the election:

Postal Service Delivered Vast Majority Of Mail Ballots On Time, Report Finds

As Americans continue to complain of late-arriving bills, birthday cards and other deliveries, there has been one bright spot in the U.S. Postal Service's performance in recent months: the 2020 election. The vast majority of mail-in ballots sent during the election arrived on time, according to a report by the Postal Service's inspector general.

The report says the Postal Service processed almost 134 million pieces of election mail — ballots and voter registration materials — sent to and by voters from Sept. 1 through Nov. 3. Of that, 93.8% was delivered on time to meet the agency's service standard for first class mail of two to five days.

That's an increase of 11% from the 2018 midterm elections. It's also, the inspector general noted, 5.6% better than on-time delivery rates for all first class mail, a standard the Postal Service has not met for five years. The Post Office's goal for on-time delivery of first class mail is 96%.

Mail advertisements for candidates and issues fared slightly worse, being delivered on time 91.9% of the time, a decrease of 3% from 2018.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Ah man, remember when all the Doomers were screaming that Louis DeJoy was going to secure Trump's victory and the election was basically over?

[South Dakota Democrat]

Vast majority doesn't seem nearly good enough, in this context.

[Tintrlvr]

Vast majority doesn't seem nearly good enough, in this context.

"On time" in this case just means it was delivered within their advertised timeframe. Not being "on time" for postal purposes doesn't mean the ballot didn't reach the voter/return to the elections bureau in time to be counted for election law purposes. Probably a significant number of the not "on time" ballots were delivered way back in September/early October when there was no rush.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Of course, there isn't much mail, everyone is using email not mail, so it was easy to deliver them

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Vast majority doesn't seem nearly good enough, in this context.

"On time" in this case just means it was delivered within their advertised timeframe. Not being "on time" for postal purposes doesn't mean the ballot didn't reach the voter/return to the elections bureau in time to be counted for election law purposes. Probably a significant number of the not "on time" ballots were delivered way back in September/early October when there was no rush.

What you mean Democrats didn't all want until the last week to mail in their ballots and be rejected en masse like SnowLabrador and Forumlurker said would happen?

[Holmes]

Of course, there isn't much mail, everyone is using email not mail, so it was easy to deliver them

Yeah there were a lot of email votes last year.