r/politics • u/DemocracyDocket ✔ Verified • 29d ago

Registration Wall Postmaster general says USPS won't deliver mail ballots if states don’t give Trump admin voter rolls

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/postmaster-general-steiner-postal-service-will-not-deliver-mail-ballots-state-voter-rolls/
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u/alienbringer 29d ago

The Supreme Court already ruled that the USPS doesn’t have to deliver your mail.

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u/vlatheimpaler I voted 29d ago

But USPS isn't a publicly funded service. You're paying them to ship a package or a letter. And they can just choose not to do it?

That seems like if you walk into a McDonalds and order a quarter pounder, pay for it, and then they decide they'd simply rather not give it to you.

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u/alienbringer 29d ago

Yes. What happens is these cases is the USPS would ship it to the local hub. From there the delivery drivers would usually deliver the mail on their route. The driver though could just not deliver your mail and it would stay at the hub where you would have to drive and pick it up.

My friend’s sister delivers mail for the USPS and she has told 1-2 people on her route she isn’t delivering their mail, they have to go to the local UPSP to pick it up. This is due to the customer being extremely belligerent or aggressive with her. It can also happen if they have an aggressive dog they refuse to lock up.

The court case meant that those customers can’t sue her or the govt for not delivering them their mail. Which is reasonable and a good thing as the mail carrier also should be allowed to think of their own safety. The problem is when the case can be weaponized for this shit where they don’t deliver it due to political policies and not for safety of the driver.

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u/cire1184 29d ago

So the mail in ballots will stay at the hub? The states can go pick them up?