I had never thought about the fact that many young people don’t vote because they have no idea how to use a post office or send mail as they’ve never had to do it.

When I was at the post office to register, this poor girl, clearly also a college student like me, didn’t know what “postmarked” meant and had no idea how to send an important document by mail. Most people my age have zero need to go to the post office and may have never stepped into one before.

I know how to use a post office but even I rarely send mail. Someone who’s 20? They’ve had the internet and online bill payment their entire life. Why would they need to know any of that? To them, it sounds like sending a telegram sounds to us. When they must do this for voter registrations and absentee balloting it must seem an anachronistic, impossible task.

If that makes you laugh, send any telegrams lately? If not, how would you do it? It wasn’t at all hard but it sure seems that way when you have no clue at all how to even start. Your grandparents would’ve had no problem with this task at all.