The U.S. Postal Service is overwhelmingly delivering ballots at a rapid pace, ensuring the election mail gets to voters and back to local officials more efficiently than its normal deliveries.
The agency was seeing success even before it began taking its special election season steps to expedite election mail processing. Through the first three weeks of October, USPS delivered 97.8% of election mail pieces on time according to its delivery windows and 99.9% were delivered within seven days.
That performance comes despite many parts experiencing slower mail delivery overall in 2024, though it is roughly in line with how USPS delivered ballots in 2020 and 2022. The Postal Service is delivering ballots in 1.4 days on average and within one day of its expected delivery time in 98.3% of cases.