Fox News put the United States Postal Service to the test ahead of the 2020 elections.
As part of a special investigation, senior correspondent Eric Shawn, …
Fox News put the United States Postal Service to the test ahead of the 2020 elections. As part of a special investigation, senior correspondent Eric Shawn, the I-Unit and others sent 500 envelopes from more than 50 locations throughout the country to test how quickly they traveled between addresses, and to a single destination in New York. A little more than two percent failed to reach their destinations, including nine envelopes that have not been delivered more than a month later. A USPS spokesperson told Fox that they could not substantiate whether the test “represents a reasonable approximation of Election mail, including ballots, as processed and delivered by the United States Postal Service in a real election cycle.” With more than 32.8 million votes reportedly cast by mail already, one expert warned that any failure to deliver could have serious consequences. Fox kept track of exactly 500 envelopes that were sent by producers in the New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and Dallas metro areas. Out of that 500,11 failed to reach their destinations. Two were returned to sender, and the other nine yet to arrive. In each city,100 envelopes were mailed from a variety of addresses. Out of the 100 envelopes sent by producers in each metro area,20 were addressed to a post office box in lower Manhattan that was monitored daily. The other 80 were sent to a single destination in each city that was also monitored. In New York, envelopes were mailed from locations within almost 70 miles of the destination. Delivery times there ranged from two to five days, and in many cases it was the envelopes traveling the shortest distances that took the longest amount of time to travel.
