In her eight years working for the USPS, also in Spring Lake and Muskegon, Anguiano said, she has enjoyed her time in Holland the most. Every carrier has their own system to stay organized, she said. In about 40 minutes, Anguiano has gathered all the letters and packages that need delivery and is loading up the back of route 29’s truck.Īs she loads in the trays of letters, Anguiano explains that the tray closest to the driver’s seat is for the first batch of houses and the second and third are the next ones for the route. The busiest days are always the day after a holiday. It all depends on the volume of mail that day. She scans them so her supervisors know she’s on track for the day.Ī day of work can last from about 7:30 a.m. There are managed scan points in hour increments inside mailboxes throughout her route. “This basically records the whole entire day,” Anguiano said holding up the small device. There’s no guaranteed delivery time for regular mail, and just about every move a carrier makes is tracked with a hand-held scanner. Most mail that’s bundled is headed for a condominium association or office building which houses several businesses. She starts off her day by pulling down the mail in her case - Postal Service terms for gathering all the day’s mail and organizing it before she goes out on the route.Īs she starts moving through her case gathering letters, several questions come to mind: Why does some mail get bundled with rubber bands and some doesn’t? When does regular mail have to be delivered by? Is your daily route tracked somehow? “I wake up, look in the laundry room and see 25 shirts and pants that all look the same sitting there.” Getting dressed in the morning is a breeze. Other uniforms were passed on to her from other carriers who had acquired too many over the years. Those locations can be found on the Broward County Supervisor of Elections website under the tab Early Voting.In order to secure the privacy, confidentiality and certain delivery of your Vote-by-Mail ballot, the Supervisor of Elections Office strongly recommends:1.She’s wearing a short-sleeve, light blue button-down shirt, just one of a dozen that she purchased with her quarterly clothing stipend. from October 19 through November 1 (the maximum allowable by law). Throughout Broward County, there are dozens of USPS (blue) collection boxes (many of which are drive-thru) where voters may drop off their postage pre-paid ballot.įor those who are concerned about USPS delivery, there are 22 secure widely dispensed drop box locations which will be available from 7 a.m. The Broward County Supervisor of Elections announced Monday that there will be 24 secure Vote-By-Mail (VBM) ballot drop-off locations throughout the county ahead of Election Day.Īccording to the SOEs office, they has received numerous inquiries from voters about how they can submit their ballots without utilizing the U.S. The Postal Service’s ability to handle the surge of mail-in ballots became a concern after its new leader, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a major GOP donor, implemented a series of policy changes that delayed mail nationwide this summer.Ģ4 vote-by-mail drop-off locations will be available in Broward County ahead of Election DayįORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Individual post offices were not single out, such as the embroiled southwest-Miami Dade postal facility where House Democratic Leader Kionne McGhee tweeted a video Friday purportedly showing election mail piled up in bins at a facility. The order, which includes centers in South Florida, central Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, and parts of Wisconsin, comes after national delivery delays leading up to the election and concerns the agency wouldn’t be able to deliver ballots on time. Postal Service inspectors to sweep more than two dozen mail processing facilities for lingering mail-in ballots and for those ballots to be sent out immediately, including South Florida. WASHINGTON – A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered U.S. Judge orders USPS to search centers for ballots, including in South Florida
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