The Postal Service received more comments on its proposed rules than on any rule in its history.
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Badlands MediaSep 16, 2026
None of the sources report how many comments the USPS received on its mail-ballot proposed rule or compare that count with any other rule in the agency's history, so the superlative is neither confirmed nor refuted. The claimant's own passage cannot corroborate it, and the sources that cover the rule (Snopes, AP, Reuters) do not contradict it.
Our two reads of who says this, and how, disagree, so it counts as the post's own claim.
What was said
… Yes. The Postal Service then took two months to issue proposed rules. Uh, those rules largely jived with the executive order. And then over the next two months, they received comments on those rules. By the Postal Service's own account, they received more comments on those rules than any rule they had ever offered in their history. And in the, uh, in August, those rules were finalized. I'll talk about that in just a second. But in the meantime, even before the federal rules were proposed, we saw a lot of litigation over this. …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. Reuters and Snopes describe the USPS proposed rule published around May 29 to June 2, 2026, with a 30-day comment period, but neither reports the number of comments received.[1][2]
Context. AP reports Democratic governors asking the USPS to withdraw the proposed rule, and a federal judge blocked the underlying executive order, but no source mentions comment volume or any historical comparison.[3]
Context. The Federal Register and Postal Explorer sources concern unrelated USPS rules (shape-based labeling and insured-mail claims filing) and say nothing about the mail-ballot rule's comments or a historical record.[4][5][6]
Sources
6 sources: 3 fact-checkers, 2 primary, 1 not rated
- 1USPS proposal requires states to give voter lists to federal government for mail ballot deliverysnopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2US Postal Service seeks to require states to submit lists of ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Democratic governors oppose USPS plan tied to Trump's ...apnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 4Shape-Based Labeling Listsfederalregister.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 5[PDF] Federal Register/Vol. 90, No. 222/Thursday, November 20, 2025 ...govinfo.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 6Federal Register Notices | Postal Explorerpe.usps.com · not rated · cited for: context
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