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It's also for anything government-related, like voting. Pretty important to have.

• trompetenaccoun 4y ago
  Important for facilitating fraud. I can't speak for the US specifically as I've never lived there but in the countries I know almost all cases of court proven voter fraud were connected with the postal service. Through interception of the mail, the fraudulent ordering of mail in ballots, "lost" mail in ballots that never got counted or simply because in some places the mail in ballots are counted separately and there is less oversight, so more of an opportunity to manipulate the count. Also that doesn't even include all the cases where a relative helped the person fill out the ballot.
  • hot_gril 4y ago
    Voting is a political hot topic in the US. Voting by mail is either 100% safe or totally broken depending on who you ask. Unlike many countries, there's nothing acting as a required voter ID here, and that's always on the platform in important races. You can register to vote with just a name and say you have no home address or SSN, of course it's illegal to lie about those things. I think people only agree that electronic voting is untrustworthy. I guess my point is, it's very hard to change how voting works here.
• psychlops 4y ago
  Agreed. I'd counter that much (all?) of it should be online.
  • hot_gril 4y ago
    In a perfect country. Currently even the govt services that are online are terrible, and not everyone has internet access. I don't know the history behind mail, but I suspect it's become kind of a personal right in the US. If/when all these problems that rely on mail get solved, mail trucks will be the last to go, not the first like someone a few comments up was hoping.