Postal Workers Improve Election Mail Delivery, Show the Postal Service Works When Given Proper Tools, Staffing

On Dec. 2, 2024, the Postal Service released its post-election analysis of how the USPS handled election mail and ballots in the 2024 General Election. Despite natural disasters and concerns from state election officials, postal workers were able to deliver results that were even better than election mail in 2022 and 2020. Like election years past, postal workers moved heaven and earth and proved once again that Vote-by-Mail is safe, secure, and an effective way to vote and why the Post Office remains one of the public’s most trusted institutions.

The report highlights several key numbers:

• The Postal Service processed 99.22 million ballots in the 2024 General Election
• 99.88 percent of ballots were delivered from voters to election officials within seven days
• 99.64 percent of ballots were delivered from voters to election officials within five days
• 97.73 percent of ballots were delivered from voters to election officials within three days
• Less than two days on average for ballots to deliver from election officials to voters
• One day on average to deliver ballots from voters to election officials.

“Postal workers proved once again just how essential our work is. We worked with postal management to ensure that ballots were delivered both timely and securely, including quickly addressing the few problems when they arose,” said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. “Our demand is that all mail, all year, receive the same care, attention, and speedy service that ballots received this election.”

The success of election mail proves that, working together, postal workers and postal management can do incredible things to move mail quickly. Postal workers want the same care and attention paid to all of America’s mail so that postal workers can deliver the good quality postal services the public deserves every day when we’re properly staffed and given the resources we need.