“If you use the US Postal Service certified mail or registered mail, they can do anything they want with those ballots." They “can burn your mail and they won't get in any trouble.”
Social media posts
Instagram. Claim dated 27 Oct 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
What PolitiFact found
The U.S. Postal Service is the country's only mail service and was established in 1970 as an independent government agency. Postal employees are prohibited by law from tampering with or destroying mail.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 27 October 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 November 2022, 7 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/CkPLQ4KjUhi/
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