The American Postal Workers Union insists on using the regular mail to let its members vote in elections that pick the union’s national officers.
The deadline for union members to mail in their ballots had to be extended recently, though. Ironically, it seems thousands of the ballots got lost in the mail.
No, that’s not a joke. Lots of postal union members said they never got their ballots in the mail, and the rate of ballots returned was far lower than in previous elections, according to news accounts. The union had to send out duplicates to many members. It is unclear how many of those fresh ballots actually got through the mail system to their intended destinations.
National Review magazine wryly observed, “This is the same [union] whose current contract requires the Postal Service to keep all existing retail offices open, even though four out of five locations lose money; the same [union] whose president … wants the next contract to ‘reflect the entitlement to more … more control over activities at work, more money, better benefits – we want more.”
Fine, but he might want to send in his request for “more” by a means other than the U.S. Postal Service.