Today, weeks after I paid extra for faster shipping, I received confirmation that my paperwork for overseas voting has been received. Too bad the deadline in my state was yesterday. Thanks, Postal Service, for the consistency of your failures. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I learned that I'm not registered to vote. Apparently filling out the form and signing it in the county clerk's office was no guarantee and I was supposed to follow up until I received mail confirmation. It's now too late to fix. FML
Today, I rushed to the post office to mail an important document for the study abroad program that I'd applied for, which was due in a few days. Just as the envelope slipped out of my hand and into the mail box, I caught a glimpse of the upper right corner where there was supposed to be a stamp. FML
Today, I've been waiting for a very important document in the mail. It has been two months. I reviewed my application and realized I forgot to put a mailing address down. FML
Today, I have a time sensitive package from another country that has been sitting in customs for a week. USPS tells me that it’s customs’ responsibility. Customs tells me they processed it and it’s USPS’s responsibility. I can’t fucking win, can I? FML
Today I found out that paying $40 for next-day shipping doesn't ensure that you'll receive the item the next day or even the next week. I assumed it was my fault for ordering too late into the holiday season. Turns out they never shipped it. When I finally received it 10 days late, it was the wrong item. FML
Today, I noticed that even though I got all my Christmas shopping done a month earlier than usual, I forgot to put anything in the mail. FML
Today, after waiting well over a month for a work visa in Germany that should only have taken 3 weeks to come through, I finally received my long-awaited answer. Unfortunately, that answer was "We lost your paperwork." FML
Today, my new mailbox key finally arrived. Not at the front door as I requested, but in the mailbox. FML
Today, I mailed out a college application that is going to another country. I paid $250 for the application and $11 for shipping. I just realized that I forgot to sign the bottom of the application. FML
Today, after waiting 7 months to get my amended tax return refund, I was informed today that not only did they mail it to the wrong address, the person who they mailed it to cashed the check. FML
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Earl_KarmasBitch 36
Could be deliberate. I'd report this if I were you. There have been previous cases of places trying to deliberately avoid postal votes because they know which way they'll go.
VapeNation4Realz 4
He said weeks, and he payed extra for fast shipping. Does weeks sound fast to you?
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Comments (23)
Taxburdett 11
You do realize that the US Postal Service has absolutely no control over another country's Postal system, right? Right?
soulreaper12296 28
Read OP's reply to someone else's comment. Their voting papers never even made it to Germany where they are currently living in the first place.
cootiequeen4444 11
#19 you need to reread both the FML and OP'S response. It got delayed while in the US after being filled out and mailed out from Germany. How else would the German post office know jack shit about its whereabouts as in that it got to the US in only a few days. On that note, some else mentioned the government should go by the stamped date of when it was sent out and I do believe this is correct. So, I also think OP should be fine and their vote should count c:
blackfire29 7
Vote counted! Hi, OP here again, if anyone is still reading the comments on this one, here's an update: I called the County Elections Division for the county I vote in and explained the situation to them. They let me go ahead and fill out a ballot anyway and said they would deliberate whether my vote could be counted or not. I checked back afterwards and they counted it!