Ballot opened by US Customs when sent via DHL

[mr bill]

I use Regular Air Mail -non registered- from Thailand for 37cents to Minnesota and it works fine... The state [Minnesota] also has a Ballot Status check app which shows results like this:

Absentee Ballot Status
Your absentee ballot application was received. A ballot will be sent to you by email for each election through December 31, 2018.

November 6, 2018, State General Election:
Your ballot was accepted on October 17, 2018 and will be counted.


August 14, 2018, State Primary:
Your ballot was counted..
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If you plan early enough regular mail avoids the cost and possible complications of an express courier or 2nd - 3rd -4th stage handling by US Consular shipping (getting ballot to SMA, then SMA to US Embassy in MEX DF, then, MEX DF US Embassy to US State dept then finally handed off to US regular mail.) Before I moved here [Thailand] I used regular mail from Mexico with 100% success.over 19 years
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I believe K.I.S.S. is a far better option. Mailing from Mexico is slow -that's a fact - but really no slower than from many other countries. I believe it is reliable and don't share in the common and oft repeated ex-pat pejorative view that it is not.