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Why New Postal Policies Aim to Prevent Mail Ballot Fraud

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If Senate Republicans Won’t Pass The SAVE Act, Trump’s New Postal Rule Is The Next Best Thing

Why New Postal Policies Aim to Prevent Mail Ballot FraudAlexander Muse – Earlier this year the state of Maryland mailed a lesson to the rest of the country, though it did not mean to. A vendor error sent voters the wrong party’s primary ballots, and when officials tried to repair the mistake they discovered they could not reliably tell which voters had received which ballot.

More than 563,000 ballots had been requested, 447,000 of them by mail, and the state was reduced to reissuing ballots wholesale because it could not trace its own mail stream. This was not fraud. It was something quieter and, in its way, more revealing.

A blue state, using a vendor it could not control, committed an enormous error and then could not even measure the size of the error it had committed. That is the status quo, and that is precisely what President Trump’s new postal rule is designed to end. Continue reading →

Congress wants to turn the US Postal Service… into a bank

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postalSimon Black – It’s news that seems ripped from the pages of The Onion. Or perhaps Atlas Shrugged.

But incredibly enough it’s actually true: earlier this week, Congress proposed a new law authorizing the US Postal Service to provide banking and financial services.

It’s called the “Providing Opportunities for Savings, Transactions, and Lending” Act, abbreviated as… wait for it… the POSTAL Act.

And it provides explicit authorization for them to provide banking services including checking and savings accounts, money transfers, and “other basic financial services as the Postal Service deems appropriate in the public interest.”

Bank of the Post Office. It’s incredible when you think about it.

The US Postal Service hasn’t turned a profit in a decade.

As a matter of fact, its total accumulated losses now exceed $51 billion, easily ranking it among the least successful companies in history.

And the only way USPS can continue to maintain its operations is with regular bailouts from the American taxpayer.

The statistics are just horrendous. Mail volume is down dramatically, which means that revenue continues to fall. Continue reading →