BIG WIN for Katie Phang:

Edited Friday at 01:21 AM3 days by KristinG79

this thread has been quiet — but this needs to be shared.

PETE BUTTIGIEG

Edited Friday at 09:30 PM3 days by wonderwoman1951

13 minutes ago, wonderwoman1951 said:

this needs to be shared.

PETE BUTTIGIEG

my god, I'm so sorry someone tried to attack his family like that, and .. I have no words.

Edited Friday at 08:02 PM3 days by janea4old

41 minutes ago, wonderwoman1951 said:

this thread has been quite — but this needs to be shared.

PETE BUTTIGIEG

Despicable behaviour. I hope they find out who's responsible.

"Despicable" doesn't BEGIN to describe what that man and his family were put through. And to think that whoever orchestrated the whole thing likely believes he/she/they were acting on God and the children's behalf!

2 hours ago, I Am A Swede said:

I hope they find out who's responsible.

And I hope whoever's responsible burns in Hell. Flag me if you must for using that kind of language, but it's just how I feel.

55 minutes ago, Khan said:

And I hope whoever's responsible burns in Hell. Flag me if you must for using that kind of language, but it's just how I feel.

I think that's how most people feel.

Wonderful news from the US Supreme Court. (That's not a sentence you get to write often)

Supreme Court allows late-arriving mail-in ballots in defeat for Trump

2 hours ago, I Am A Swede said:

Wonderful news from the US Supreme Court. (That's not a sentence you get to write often)

Supreme Court allows late-arriving mail-in ballots in defeat for Trump

Someone must've slipped the right-wing judges something.

The postmark thing still has a catch though, and it might trip up a lot of people.

It used to be that if you mailed your letter in any mailbox before the pickup time, then it would be postmarked that day. Not anymore.

Effective 24 December 2025:

The postmark will be whenever they get around to processing your mail at a facility somewhere in the system. This could be days -- or a week or more --after you mail it.

With this new rule, the only way to be certain of the postmark: you must bring the letter inside the post office to have a postal clerk manually postmark it with today's date. Or to be very sure, pay extra money for a certificate of mailing.

In response to questions, the U.S. Postal Service released a statement on January 2, 2026.
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/statements/010226-postmarking-myths-and-facts.htm

This basically claims that postmarks have always legally meant the date the mail was "processed" by the post office at a processing facility, and not the date it was "first received" by the post office.

They are saying it was always an incorrect assumption by the public that the date your mail is picked up is the postmark date; and then they justify by saying the public was making wrong assumptions so this isn't a "rules change", and instead they are following existing rules.

The "explanation" of the current situation going forward is that processing used to be local which made postmarks same-day. Nowadays most of the processing plants have shut down so your mail might go to a processing plant in a faraway city to be processed, and it's not postmarked until it gets there.

I mean, there should have been hearings about this, but there weren't.

This affects vote-by-mail and they knew this, obviously.

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