I heard that this was because mail volume is falling through the floor while parcel volume is nearing record highs each day.<p>Given that there only a limited amount of floor space in mail sorting facilities, it makes sense to remove unneeded letter sorting machines to replace with parcel sorting machines.
All of this uproar about sorting machines is really frustrating to me, because no one seems to be writing about the utilization of the existing machines. If they were previously only 50% utilized, this seems like a reasonable thing to do for efficiency (kind of like how the post office (re)moves thousands of collection boxes every single due to lack of use, but everyone is suddenly upset because they're removing a dozen boxes in Middle of Nowhere, Montana that only get a few letters per day)
Thinking from a different perspective, in a majority mail-in election, could these machines pose a risk to the election's integrity? They would most likely not be undergoing the same scrutiny as electronic voting systems (which in many places is already a very low bar...), and they are most likely vulnerable to as many other problems and exploits as any other system.
I am genuinely concerned for the November election.<p>Even putting the dismantling of the USPS in the most favorable light, president Trump has managed to convince a chunk of his base that this year's presidential election will not be legitimate. We may end up in a situation where Donald Trump loses and part of the country truly believes the Biden was elected illegitimately.<p>I'm not sure what will happen, but it won't be good for our democracy.
I don't get how their address recognition technology seems to work so well with all the handwritten addresses. I am assuming it is mostly automated.
Mail gets lost, do we want lost votes?<p><a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/covid-19-vote-by-mail-ballot-counted-election/" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/covid-...</a>
We're seeing major things happening around the world. The biggest of them is seeing the US slowly head into an autocracy (quite implicitly). Trump is doing whatever Trump wants, and no one is stopping him. How so?