Out of the 3.37 billion pieces of political mail and election mail from 2024, the average delivery time was one day, according to USPS. That meant more than 97% of ballots got to local election officials in fewer than three days and that more than 99% got to them within seven days.
However, there were 150,630 ballots sent off between Oct. 31 and Election Day that didn’t make it to election offices in time to be counted.
“When it comes to the delivery of Election Mail, there are 50 states and nearly 8,000 election jurisdictions that are far from uniform in their election laws and practices, and that often do not consider how the mail system works,” USPS wrote in a statement on Monday. “This can result in a mismatch of timeframes, deadlines, ballot return suggestions and the practical reality of using the mail. Many of these laws and practices were not established with the Postal Service’s operations in mind.”
There were fewer mail-in ballots this cycle than in 2020, when the country was at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
USPS has 640,000 employees nationwide. It credited its success to integrated communication that allowed for special and extra deliveries. Even when Hurricanes Helene and Milton touched land in the Southeast, USPS focused on these areas until they “received performance comparable with the rest of the nation.”
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“As we continue to transform the nation’s postal network to better meet the demands of the modern mailing and shipping customer, we stand ready to work with policymakers at all levels to make the nation’s effective vote by mail process even stronger,” Postmaster General Louis Dejoy said in a statement.
Dejoy was appointed in 2020 by the USPS Board of Governors as the 75th postmaster general.
