Show me the newspaper article link for that.
That is a BS urban rumor. It happens about once every five or six years. Tell me what you do for a living and I will find four or five articles regarding someone in the profession doing something wrong.
And there are thousands of letter carries. Pointing out one or two is no more effective here, than it is when a politician says it.
Thinking that every letter carrier is a union thug is just insane. Misdirecting mail or delaying its delivery is a felony and will result in immediate dismissal.
Would you risk that for a single vote?
No? Neither would they.
See the link at Post 5, above.
And my “mail carrier” (or someone at the post office), has a nasty habit of scrawling rude notes on my National Review magazine. Of course, this is illegal as well but doesn’t stop them.
Criminals and union thugs don’t care about the law, that is why they are criminals and union thugs.
Would you or I risk out job my misdirecting one or a thousand ballots? No. But they are criminals and they don’t care about the law. . .that is why they are criminals and union thugs.
Your logic doesn’t hold up, otherwise merely making something against the law would be enough to stop it from happening.
You are presuming the mailman has intellect and morals.
You are mistaken in both cases.
The loss of mail while en-route through incompetence and a just-don’t-care attitude is enough reason that I never send anything of any value via the post office. I don’t trust them. . .and a ballot is valuable.
Urban myth. . .mailmen not delivering the mail or tampering with the mail. . .an urban myth?
Consider, from the USPS. Very interesting stats: https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/radDocs/pubs/06anrept.htm
And consider: “The recent discovery in Bonny Doon, Calif., of a former mail carrier’s old stash was not exactly unprecedented. There’s also the recent arrest of a Detroit postal carrier who squirreled away 9,000 pieces of mail into a storage locker, a work dodge worthy of a Seinfeld plot. A week earlier, a postman was nailed for hoarding 27,000 letters in Leeds, England; the week before that revealed a postal hoarder with 20,000 letters in Frankfurt, Germany. (”[He] didn’t deliver mail addressed to himself either,” a police statement dryly noted.) And all of them were dwarfed by the North Carolina postman who admitted in August to filling his garage and burying in his backyard nearly a tractor trailer’s worth of undelivered junk mail.
But the hoarding and abandonment of mail is a phenomenon that extends at least back to 1874, when Providence, R.I., postman Benjamin Salisbury was caught throwing mail into the ocean “to avoid the trouble of delivery.” Some things don’t change much; a Long Island postman used the same MO in 1954, when he blamed a bum leg from the war for forcing him to dump his mail off a local pier. The scheme kind of worked … until the tide came in.
In 2006, the last year the U.S. Postal Service released figures, there were 515 arrests and 466 convictions for “internal theft.” That figure includes abandonment and hoarding cases, where the motive has remained constant since the days of penny postage: A worker gets overwhelmed or simply disinclined to finish his route. “It’s not a huge issue,” Agapi Doulaveris of the U.S. Office of the Inspector General told me. “We work on referrals.” http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2008/11/the_j_crew_catalog_destroyed_my_spirit.html
Oh, and yeah, you have to KNOW your mail has gone missing before you can report it. So, if you mail your ballot and the mailman “loses” it, there is no way you would know.
Of course, one ballot or just a few, what does that matter. It’s not like it is important or anything.