Their job is whatever the government tells them it is, things like this don't just spawn out of thin air, there's usually rationale for it[0]. The post office

Their job is whatever the government tells them it is, things like this don't just spawn out of thin air, there's usually rationale for it[0]. The post office already does way more than you think it does. Like identity verification on behalf of the government and tracking which houses are considered "vacant" or not. It would be nice to focus the USPS, but all these extra services have to be done by _some entity_, otherwise you can't have the final result. In this case, the result is a functional, auditable mail in ballot system [0]: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/02/2026-10968/ballot-mail-for-federal-elections https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/02/2026-10...