Poczta Polska efficiently served correspondence voting in the first round of presidential elections

The Polish Post has served 174 thousand election packages. Until June 26, packages were delivered to people covered by quarantine, insulation or insulation at home. This also applies to the inhabitants of the Baranów commune and the Marklowice commune, where, due to the occurrence of bonfires of coronavirus infections, only correspondence was ordered.

The delivery of election packages took place in accordance with the deadlines resulting from the generally applicable regulations. Over 6,000 were involved in the delivery of packages. postcards, most in the Śląskie Voivodeship, additionally over 7,000 Employees were on duty in post offices and ensured the packets to OKW on the day of election.

- Poczta Polska as the only operator on the market, has experience in mass delivery of special parcels. This is also due to the service of disabled people who voted correspondence in earlier elections. We used these experiences in servicing the presidential elections, and this time we were dealing with a record number of Poles who reported a desire to vote by correspondence. Thanks to the effort of many employees of the company and cooperation with municipal offices, this process was successfully conducted - says Tomasz Zdzikot, president of the board of Poczta Polska.

Electoral packages were broadcast by municipal offices only as registered shipments. They were marked with a special print "Electoral parcel". Packages were handled by two -person postal teams. The packages were delivered to boxes, with the exception of packages for people with disabilities and staying on quarantine, which had information on the envelope "delivery to the door of the premises". In addition, in cases of lack of delivery boxes, their damage or the inability to leave the package in the box (e.g. due to its overflow), the election packages were notified.

Nearly 78% of packages were delivered to the postal boxes, 20% "to the door of the premises", only 1.7% of election parcels were appealed. In the event of an incorrect address or the inability to deliver the voter package, the voter fails to collect the package within the period specified by the provisions, the packages were refundable, which concerned about 0.3% of shipments. Most of the invited shipments, because nearly 64%, were picked up by voters from post offices.

The biggest challenge was before employees from the regions in which the Baranów communes (Greater Poland Voivodeship) and Marklowice (Śląskie Voivodeship) are located, where only correspondence voting was ordered. In the case of Baranów, there were 3.6 thousand to serve. packages at 6.2 thousand persons entitled to vote, and in the Marklowice commune for over 4.2 thousand residents of the desire to vote for correspondence were reported by over 2.9 thousand. people.

On the day of the election, the postalists delivered feedback from mailboxes to 14.2 thousand. Regional electoral commissions. Packages not collected from the facilities after notification were also transferred to OKW.