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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:11:27 -0700
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On 8/27/2024 9:19 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 22:53:43 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
> <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/26/24 18:03, Jay E. Morris wrote:
>>> On 8/25/2024 2:16 PM, Chris Buckley wrote:
>>>> Many things would have to change here.  Security procedures require
>>>> months of preparation now.  The voting/tallying period is now approaching
>>>> a month between early voting and delivery of mail ballots.  It certainly
>>>> won't allow a quick second round.
>>>>
>>>> Locally, all schools are closed on election day and even the day before
>>>> this year due to schools being polling places.  It's tough to have an
>>>> indeterminate calendar for schools.
>>>
>>> Here, southwest Texas, I don't know of a polling place that's in a
>>> school. Churches, fire stations, city hall, county courthouse but no
>>> schools.
>>
>> 	In San Francisco we use any space available, the lobby of a big
>> building may have space or a closed store.(too many of those around).But
>> I vote at home then carry my ballot to a collection box.  I used to drop
>> it at City Hall but that is very tiring(for me) and for many years now I
>> have voted at home and hand carried my ballot to a collection box. With
>> DeJoy trying to put the Post Office out of business I would not entrust
>> it to the US Mail.
> 
> Dubious as I am of DeJoy, I must report this:
> 
> every month I mail two checks out on the 1st
> one is to a local charity (in Seattle, WA)
> one is to an international charity (in Washington, DC)
> in March 2024, the local check cleared on the 7th and the
> international check cleared on the 11th
> in August 2024, they both cleared on the 8th
> 
> So I would say that there has been some improvement recently.

They have momentarily given up on privatizing the USPS.

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