The PO workers are NOT on Trump’s side, obviously, and the DNC knows which postal drops will be strong Republican. So, easy solution, just ‘lose’ half of the ballots that are from Republican areas.
About all the Republicans could do is drive to inner city post offices and drop their ballots there (off hours, of course, since if the workers see you dropping ballots, they’ll collect those).
Anyway, not practical. The ONLY other option is to not allow voting by mail, and instead have people drop their paper ballots at actual voting locations - which will at least have some level of security. Seems like an easy thing to do...but will the Republicans figure it out soon enough?
NOPE!
Not only that, I have it on good anecdotal authority (one friend who is a retired postal carrier) that insuring a package in the USPS is a red flag to the handlers/carriers that there is something valuable inside. You’d almost be better off to NOT insure a valuable item. Your best bet in that case is to send it Registered, which requires signatures at every transfer point along the way.
Talked to our PW yesterday. Teased him about working overtime to burning ballots. But he is a good guy. He said not too long ago, mail persons could discard the widespread unsolicited crap mail w/o the recipient’s request. But now, for every piece he discards, he must log its description, why it was discarded, when, and by whom. (Obviously I think this could still be done w/o logs)