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summer_in_TX

(4,340 posts)
25. Unsettling proposal and unsettling process.
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 06:29 PM
Wednesday

I followed the link to read the proposed rule and submit comments. Submission of comments has always been through a webform that guided you through all the required parts of the comments including the docket number. Now they just have an email address to which we submit comments.

ADDRESSES:

Mail or deliver written comments to Director, Product Classification, U.S. Postal Service, 475 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Room 4446, Washington, DC 20260-5015. Email comments, containing the name and address of the commenter, may be sent to:

PCFederalRegister@usps.gov,

with a subject line of “Ballot Mail.” Faxed comments will not be accepted.

You may inspect and photocopy all written comments, by appointment only, at USPS® Headquarters Library, 475 L'Enfant Plaza SW, 11th Floor North, Washington, DC 20260. These records are available for review Monday through Friday, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. by calling 202-268-2906.


PUBLIC comments? Not so much. Can't see them unless in person. We can only photocopy them??


According to Regulations.gov, email only is NOT the normal process.

What would it take make the public record actually available TO THE PUBLIC? Volunteers going in and copying by hand? Uploading material to a website?

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STFU and deliver the mail Steiner. You don't get to make rules or law. pecosbob May 29 #1
So, a back-door way for IQ47 to get voter information from the states who've told him to get bent AZJonnie May 29 #2
Easier to break vote secrecy. They can open "to verify" and know who you voted for. SharonAnn May 30 #21
The tools the regime are trying to build will tell them who everyone is likely to vote for AZJonnie May 30 #22
UGH................... Lovie777 May 29 #3
The illegal executive order that mandates coordination with SSA is a... pat_k May 29 #4
He may be both, but his excuse was.... reACTIONary May 29 #17
Illegal. Period. live love laugh May 29 #5
No. There is only one reason why this regime wants to do this shit when no one else has tried or even cared to. Karasu May 29 #6
They know how many are mailed idahoblue May 29 #7
That would the ENTIRE GOLDEN STATE OF CALIFORNIA usonian May 29 #8
just everyone over 18 and a citizen Retrograde May 29 #14
Doesn't this run contrary to its consitutional definition of a postal service, namely providing roads to in2herbs May 29 #9
Partisan Postal Service? 2na fisherman May 29 #10
State election officials KT2000 May 29 #11
Each precinct, city, county and state have different ballots, that are all printed and mailed locally FakeNoose May 29 #12
Why don't we just get chips implanted in our foreheads? littlemissmartypants May 29 #13
no need...you will willingly carry it in your pocket. ret5hd Wednesday #27
Requiring states to submit lists of mail-in voters is not part of the mission of the USPS. summer_in_TX May 29 #15
This proposed rule won't be published officially until Monday. So far it doesn't show a docket number. summer_in_TX May 29 #16
Why? Figarosmom May 30 #18
A bar code tied to your name? WTF?? Bengus81 May 30 #19
Nothin new Gum Logger May 30 #20
Maybe the U.S. Postal Service should go to churches and find out who isn't putting money in the collection plates! RedWhiteBlueIsRacist May 30 #23
Oh, FFS. It already takes 10 days to get an envelope to me from a bank 8 miles away. Vinca May 30 #24
Unsettling proposal and unsettling process. summer_in_TX Wednesday #25
I recently retired from the Post Office, and I can tell you D. Spaulding Wednesday #26
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