The U.S. citizen part of my dual-nationality received email notification today that my ballot for the November 2020 U.S. elections was ready for download.
The process started with sending a ballot request form through the mail to the Monroe County Board of Elections; that triggered today’s email, which gets me a ZIP file with the ballot, instructions, and a printable envelope for returning it.
I vote, as I always have, at my last residential address in the USA, the apartment I lived in when I was born in Rochester, New York. Because I’m a non-resident elector I’m eligible to vote for President and for Representative in the New York 25th.
Never has voting-by-mail been such a topic of public conversation as this year; I’ll be sending my ballot off in the mail tonight to ensure it gets to Rochester in plenty of time. My envelope sports two stamps from the Canada Post Medical Groundbreakers series: the James Till and Ernest McCulloch stamp and the Julio Montaner stamp. Because, you know, science.
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GO GO GO! We can do this! We
GO GO GO! We can do this! We MUST do this. Thanks for voting.
Nice stamps!🤣
Nice stamps!🤣
What an interesting process!
What an interesting process! And the stamps are great - did you order them by mail also? My PO told me they did not get any of the new stamps issued since March.
The Charlottetown Post Office
The Charlottetown Post Office had all the new stamps.
well, now I am annoyed. This
well, now I am annoyed. This was at a sub-PO at Shoppers. I was in a regular PO this morning and could have asked, but will the next time I am there - and will also tell the guy at Shoppers - he was figuring out how he could order them on the sly for that location.
As an added benefit, by going
As an added benefit, by going to a real post office you are supporting union labour.
well, that is true, however I
Well, that is true; however I do support (some of) the services provided by CP. I send actual mail - pay bills by cheque in the mail, send actual cards and sometimes letters, and parcels. And the mail that is delivered to the subs and from the subs is done by CP union members. Since street letter boxes have virtually all disappeared, these local subs provide a valuable service to those wanting to send lettermail. We are in a larger city and only 2 actual Canada Post outlets remain. We have had a PO Box at one of them for more than 25 years. My husband was a courier driver and a letter carrier at CPost for many years; I learned much about the system at that time. And coincidentally, this story from cbc archives showed up yesterday related to your comment! https://www.cbc.ca/archives/postal-demo-1987-1.5726256
If I my speak on behalf of my
If I my speak on behalf of my own and wager on behalf of the other, both of your nations thank you
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