Election mail: We sent 193 shipments. Here's what we learned.
A person drops off an application for a mail-in ballot in Omaha, Neb., on Aug. 18. After seven weeks and sending 193 pieces of mail short distances, it finally happened: A perfect week of on-time mail delivery. Out of 20 packages sent the week of Election Day in six states, not a single one took more than three days to reach its destination -- the postal service’s benchmark for delivery of local mail. It was the first time that had happened in the course of the USA TODAY network’s effort to track mail delivery times across the nation in the ...
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