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Well, ballots are clearly time sensitive. Reporting from 2020 claimed that UPS and FedEx can't legally postmark ballots: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fedex-ballot-vote-mail-facts-190031449.html
But can states just declare that unnecessary? I mean, a lot of states have ballot drop boxes, so it's not like USPS mail is the only alternative to in-person voting.
They're not time sensitive in the sense that the first class monopoly law means.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/39/320.6
The delivery window needs to be measured in hours for it to qualify.
As for the postmark requirement, that would entirely depend on the state. Usually the law is written in such a way that it's dropbox, hand it to clerk, or received by postal service. The postmark requirement is because it's usually not permitted to give the ballot to someone outside of your home, but the postal service is an exception because they're part of the government. There's no provision in the law for accepting the word of a parcel service for when they got a ballot.
States could change that but they'd run into the first class mail restriction.
The best bet would be to permit a "moving drop box" where a municipal clerk could bring the box to your house. Make it like an ice cream truck playing patriotic music.
Fuck it. Pull a Trump. Do it anyway and make them sue or come after you for it. Boot up a state-backed volunteer-run ballot delivering operation. Encourage people to pick up their ballots at county courthouses or other similar locations. For those who can't make it, have a portal where a volunteer can drive a ballot out to them. Same for picking the ballots back up.
If they want to litigate it, tie them up in court long enough that it won't matter. You already have the ballots at that point.
Oh, every single one of those is legal except paying anyone else, like UPS, to do it.
I don't want them to do that one in specific because it gives them actual, as opposed to pretextual, justification to send postal marshals to raid and seize mail in ballots.
Sueing a secretary of state is fine, but an excuse to legally seize ballots would have immediate consequences on the election beyond what a lawsuit would.