March 29, 2024
Plea made to keep post offices open
RIVERSIDE – (INT) - As more Californians prefer to vote-by-mail, election officials worry that postal service cuts may mean fewer ballots will meet election night deadlines.

Riverside County Registrar of Voters Kari Verjil has joined her counterparts throughout the state urging the postal service to delay post office closures.

“I would encourage the postal authorities to keep the post offices open for the June primary election and the November 2012 election.”

Vote-by-mail ballots not reaching election officials by 8pm election night are not counted.

The Postal Service has begun closing local post offices in a cost-cutting move. That is delaying delivery of First Class mail up to 3-days.

More than 40 percent of all ballots cast in recent elections were done by mail.

A regional postal official issued a statement Friday which declared in part: "We are under a moratorium and are not closing or consolidating any Post Offices or mail processing plants through May 15. What's more, any changes at Post Offices would have no impact on mail service. In California, no mail processing plants will be closed or consolidated before the June 5 CA primary. And any consolidation or closure of a processing plant in CA or anywhere else in the country will be completed by August 31, 2012."
Story Date: April 1, 2012
Real-Time Traffic
NBC
AQMD AQI
Habitat for Humanity
United Way of the Inland Valleys
Pink Ribbon Thrift