Changes at the U-S Postal Service are drawing concerns over mail-in voting ahead of the November election.
Tens of millions of ballots are expected to be mailed due to the pandemic.
U-S Senator Gary Peters of Michigan has started an investigation over delays in delivery. He wants to know why overtime has been cut and why mail carriers aren’t allowed to make more than one trip.
“To help folks who need the mail delivered on time for medicine, their bills or their paychecks for Social Security checks, and certainly for the election as well," said Peters. "That's why this has to happen now, and if these policies aren't working, we need to change it.”
Over the weekend Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced a rise in the cost of mailing ballots to voters from 20 cents to 55 cents per ballot.