If it isn't obvious that Trump plans to shut down the US Post Office immediately after the election if not sooner, then an American is blind to his ruthlessness.

Trump cannot shut down the US Post Office. He cannot render it dysfunctional. The USA Constitution guarantees the American people a functioning and affordable US Post Office. In order to remove the US Post Office from the American landscape, there has to be an amendment to the USA Constitution.

Right now, today, the US Post Office has exclusive AUTHORITY to "postmark" the mail. There is no other authority nor should there be.

NOW, this should be an ALERT to anyone mailing their ballots. While private carriers can deliver the ballots, a postmark might be required for it to be counted.

One more time.

NOW, this should be an ALERT to anyone mailing their ballots. While private carriers can deliver the ballots, a postmark might be required for it to be counted.

CHECK WITH YOUR POLLING AUTHORITY (USUALLY THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND LOCAL COUNTY SECRETARIES) TO FIND OUT OF A POSTMARK IS NECESSARY FOR THE BALLOT TO BE CONSIDERED LEGAL AND BINDING. IT REALLY SHOULD BE PUBLISHED SOMEWHERE ON THE STATE WEBSITE. 

The other mail services aren't really mail services. Independent PACKAGE DELIVERY companies provide a service to Americans that they like, especially those in business. That is my impression. I have at times accessed THE PRIVATE PACKAGE DELIVERY network to ship packages that also needed assistance in packaging.

Private delivery services are great. They do a good job. But, they have no postmarks. They work within their own networks to produce paperwork and provide timely delivery. They do a good job of it. 

Again. 

Today, in the USA the US Post Office is the only authority to provide postmarks and issue stamps. The only instrument that can change that is an amendment to the USA Constitution. That means such an amendment would first have to be written, passed through by 2/3rds majority in the US House and US Senate. That won't happen. Then 2/3rds of the states have to put it on a ballot to have the voters decide about adding an amendment to the USA Constitution. The American people love their post office. The US Post Office is part of life. Local Post Offices are a cozy feeling to Americans and they want to have nothing to do with losing their local post offices.

We have been through this before, but, it was about closing post offices for one reason or another. It was very public. The public had it's input through their Congresspersons. It was democratic and the way a free society handles major changes in its paradigm.

Balloting is a LEGAL AND BINDING act. Every ballot carries legal weight in this society. That means the authority receiving them RESPECTS the ballot AND the INTEGRITY of a fully functioning and available US Post Office.

August 15, 2020

By George Pyle

Can there be anything more American than the Post Office? (click here)

It helps that the history of what is now officially known as the United States Postal Service basically begins as the handiwork of the most American of us all, Benjamine Franklin. 

Franklin worked for a long time to wangle himself the appointment, first as postmaster of Philadelphia, then as postmaster general of the colonies under the British crown and then, in 1775, as the first postmaster general of the United States....