You can’t send a five dollar bill nowadays. It’ll disappear every time.
That was then.
That’s the whole point about this story (and the timing).
“If we can trust the mail with the Hope diamond, we can trust it with our ballot.”
I like the counter-argument of “Okay - take $1,000 cash and mail it to yourself!”
Silly comparison. Ballots are recognizably marked on the outside as ballots. I’m sure the package with the diamond was not marked.
In 1966 I put a hard earned $1.25 (dollar and quarter) in the mail to order an item, never received the item. My dad chastised me after I told him saying I should have asked him for a check.
Sent a very large check to Alabama in July USPS overnight mail, the post office confirms it made it to the right post office, but according to them is still in the postal system. Luckily the bank acknowledged the deposit. The USPS has a form to get refunds for undelivered overnight mail, so I got a refund.
It’s not the ballot that is the issue, or even the postal service for that matter.
It’s about the opportunity for fraud.
We know that the IRS mailed thousands of checks to people who were dead simply because their records were not up to date. We also know that vote rolls have not been cleaned up for years.
What happens to all those ballots mailed out to people who are dead, who moved away, who are now ineligible to vote?
Are you willing to assume they will be safely discarded, or will you at least recognize the potential for a ‘ballot harvestor’ to collect them, vote them, and return them?
Illegal? Yes, but since when did the Democrats follow the law?
Wash and blow dry for Nancy, anyone?
Because you know it was labeled Hope Diamond: Handle with care.
That was before the days of 3-D scanning of all mail, when there was still the Lord’s prayer in schools, and before Ted Kennedy’s anti-European, Third-World immigration act.
I remember reading of this maybe sixty years ago in either Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, or Elsie Hix’ Strange As It Seems.
Actually, my ballot is far more valuable than a piece of carbon.... That’s why I demand to vote in person.
In the last five years I’ve had at least four books fail to arrive from Amazon. Before that only one package went astray since 2001. The four always seemed to make it to the local Post Office and...vanish.