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Election mail is supposed to be handled locally, especially when it gets closer to the election. We separate the ballots and bypass the sorting facilities and bring them to the local town hall/voting location. This was the usual process for the last 2 offices and presidential elections I worked through for this very reason, especially when DeJoy shut down sorting machines.
The delays are still a concern for many reasons, but as long as local post offices handle ballot delivery locally it would help minimize late ballots.
That being said, what do I know? I'm just a lowly cog in the machine.
There's the rub, though: the model DeJoy is moving to is trying to remove mail carriers from thousands of local post offices. The plan is to funnel everything through centralized regional sort centers and have all routes start/end there. Even if the local post office set ballots to the side, they'd still end up flowing back through the sort center because, under the plan, many post offices will essentially be the equivalent of a UPS or FedEx retail location.
Thank you O' Cog for your toothy, spinny perspective!
Did you forget about the fact that half the point of absentee ballots is for folks to vote when they're away (e.g. deployed in the military, at college, etc.) and can't get back to their precinct vote? That mail is definitely not supposed to be getting handled locally!
Correct, which is why handling local ballots locally helps lower volume at the sorting facilities and hopefully allowing them to get to their destination town on time.