UPDATE on sending ballots by mail 📬

September 2025

Note: Important elections are coming up in states that require ballots to be returned by postal mail: Texas (TX-18, November 4) and Tennessee (TN-7, December 2).

National Postal Systems

In general, post offices throughout the Caribbean Islands are still accepting letter/document mail to the US as usual. (Arrival times have probably not gotten any faster.) This has been confirmed by our Island Representatives in Bermuda, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines and Grenada. Media reports reflect acceptance of letters/documents in many other islands.

US Embassies

Ballots (sealed, addressed and with appropriate US postage) are being accepted by the US embassies in Jamaica, Barbados and Grenada.

Ballots delivered to the consulate in the Cayman Islands are forwarded to the embassy in Jamaica and sent to the US from there.

The embassy in Barbados covers Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines. The Barbados embassy reports usually sending one shipment per week (depending on volume), which takes two or three days to reach the US where mail is given to the USPS for final delivery — allow approximately three weeks total from Barbados to your county board of elections. If you mail your ballot from another island to the embassy in Barbados, add time accordingly.

Courier Services

FedEx and DHL are widely available in the Caribbean Islands. Costs and times will vary according to location.

If you have had a different or additional postal experience, please let us know at [email protected]. Thank you!