Brickbat: Sorry, I'm Late for an Appointment

In Putnam County, West Virginia, a former U.S. Postal Service carrier faces up to one year in federal prison and a $100,000 fine after pleading guilty to desertion of mail. Michael Burdette reportedly tossed a total of more than 200 pieces of mail into a service station dumpster on two different occasions. He did so because he was "running late for a personal matter," according to prosecutors.
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His real crime was dumping mail before our national censors and security apparatus could read it.
What's the problem? The Comstock laws of 1873 urged postal workers to do exactly that if they imagined the mail might be "obscene" or "disloyal." Customs regulations to this day repeat Comstock verbiage telling passengers to kiss their valuables goodbye. Comstock Law text (https://bit.ly/49ozTuv)
He had to return some video cassettes.
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Of the mail carrier ends up in prison, they will learn that the US Postal Service was not the first to use the slogan
Lick It Before You Stick It
How many of those were ballots?
One problem mail-in voting has is that so many hands have access to ballots. Do we trust (government union member) postal carriers to *not* simply and untraceably trash ballots they pick up at homes with Republican signs out front? Or to not take "undeliverable" ballots and "vote" with them?
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