Did you happen to see whether it had your address on it? I’ve been occasionally hearing reports of incorrectly-directed mail [mail to another address, especially, but also mail to a previous resident who has a forwarding order in place, I think?] being in the preview but then not showing up in the mailbox.

That said, it sounds like that is the sort of thing usually sent To Every Resident as bulk mail, and if they’re only sending “apply to be postal inspector” mail to people who are registered to vote with a specific letter after their name, that *also* isn’t good!

(but also I hate all the attempts to kneecap the USPS so much. I know that some people are Privatize Everything people who used to think that the private sector could do anything better than the government and who were therefore against the USPS, but surely the current situation with Facebook and Amazon and various other worker-abusing and customer-abusing behemoths has demonstrated this is not the case? And the USPS also has economy of scale going for it, in addition to a lack of corporate profit-squeezing. Anyway, I want the USPS to be allowed to keep on plodding without certain people specifically taking actions to reduce its capability and then pointing out, as though they had nothing to do with it, how its capability has reduced; it’s vital for so many people who wouldn’t be “maximally efficient” to deliver to, especially rural folks! And having *a* cheap-ish way to receive legal notices of things reduces the surface for phishing attacks – when you can tell your aging relatives that they shouldn’t respond to phone/email things that say they’re from the Social Security Department, but wait until they get something in the mail, so many scams die.)

(I still get peevish about the hearing for DeJoy, after charts of USPS service levels plunging were leaked, when he said his previous line again “sure I don’t have experience with the USPS; you should judge me on results” and: look: the entire room full of legislators had, if they paid attention, *recently seen* the graph with results as to how mail delivery delays had spiked after his experimentation with USPS procedures, and apparently causing the USPS to have extraordinarily poor results was, in fact, ideal for some of our representatives?)

I have noticed in my own Informed Delivery emails that sometimes things show as coming that day but don’t arrive for another day or two, so maybe tomorrow? Certainly horrifying if it’s what it looked like.