More than half of the nation's 67 postal districts failed to meet any first-class mail delivery goals between April 1 and June 30. 23 only met one. First-class is the type of mail recommended by USPS for mailed ballots. APMreports
Election official Jim Fortner places a crate of sorted absentee ballots with others from the same ward at the Madison, Wisconsin, City-County Building on Aug. 5, 2020. Madison elections workers alphabetized each returned absentee ballot by hand in preparation for Wisconsin’s partisan primary on Tuesday. Delays and failure to deliver absentee ballots in Wisconsin and other key swing states have sparked concerns about how well the November presidential election will be managed during the pandemic.
NOTE: The postal service measures performance by comparing the measured time it takes to deliver a piece of mail with athat's based on where a letter is mailed and its destination. These charts show on-time percentage scores for the overnight and two-day delivery standards of Presort First-Class Mail. The fiscal year 2020 service goals are 96.8% for mail assigned an overnight delivery standard and 96.5% for mail assigned a two-day standard.
NOTE: The postal service measures performance by comparing the measured time it takes to deliver a piece of mail with athat's based on where a letter is mailed and its destination. These charts show on-time percentage scores for the overnight and two-day delivery standards of Presort First-Class Mail. The fiscal year 2020 service goals are 96.8% for mail assigned an overnight delivery standard and 96.5% for mail assigned a two-day standard.
Concerns over mail delivery are coming alarmingly true in Wisconsin, where election officials continue to have problems with ballots not being delivered to voters. Nearly 700 voters in the cities of Milwaukee and Wauwatosa did not receive ballots they requested in late June for Tuesday’s primary. But that advice is meaningless if voters can still request mail-in ballots — also known as absentee ballots — within a week of Election Day. Twenty-four states have laws that allow voters to request an absentee ballot during that time, a potential problem for voters who may think they have time to get the ballot in the mail and send it back.Matt Rourke | APEvery three months, the U.S. Postal Service releases data that shows on-time delivery for different classes of mail.
And while the pandemic may have recently slowed mail delivery across the country, the postal district representing eastern and southern Wisconsin has rarely met targets for on-time mail delivery and has often had scores below the national level since late 2016. When ballots didn’t arrive after a month, Werner called the Wauwatosa City Clerk’s Office and was told their ballots had been in a batch that never made it to voters’ homes.
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