Portland: The post office took away the drive-up mailboxes, but it's all right (Updated)
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My wife often does the company mailings for her employer, stopping by the post office branch near our home. It's on the way, they have three drive-up mailboxes, and it's a snap to drop the letters and statements in one of the boxes.
Those drive-up mailboxes are now gone.
So now, my wife has to go into the post office branch. She asked the clerk on duty about the drive-up mailboxes. It seems someone or a group of someones had routinely been dumping glue or other stuff into those boxes, spoiling the mail inside. Oregon has 100% vote-by-mail elections, and has had for more than 20 years; we know how to do it. When the mailboxes were being vandalized, the post office branch realized very quickly what this could mean for the ballots going out next week, and they are now requiring all mail to be brought into the branch, where ballots can be securely dropped off for mailing, assuring that everyone's vote will count.
When I first heard about it from my wife, we both thought immediately that something nefarious was going on. Something nefarious was going on, but not what we thought. Be vigilant this election season, but don't be too hasty in jumping to conclusions.
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Our community post boxes were vandalized the night of the Biden/Trump debate. They look like the box below. It looked like someone put a chain around the bottom & took them down that way. I heard what sounded like metal collapsing around 11PM at night. It was too dark to see anything outside until the next morning when I saw the boxes lying on the sidewalk.
