USPS Capacity for Vote by Mail
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USPS will rise to the occasion and deliver in the November election season
INTRODUCTION
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is the federal government’s in-house delivery agency, reliably moving paper mail to every American mailbox six days per week. It is also an old and well-established institution that was provided for in the postal clause of the first article of the Constitution, and that federal, state and local governments have come to rely on to communicate with citizens for more than 200 years. Throughout that time, the postal service and its predecessors have successfully kept communication flowing through every kind of disaster. This year, in light of the global pandemic, the agency has been called upon to handle a national election carried out primarily through postal ballots. Accordingly, the present brief analyzes the USPS’s capacity to handle such an election and finds that it is well-positioned to successfully rise to the occasion.
