IT’S IN THE MAIL: Postal officials in...

IT’S IN THE MAIL: Postal officials in Orange County, aware of strong public interest in Tuesday’s election, had geared up for an expected 600,000 pieces of political mail a day, primarily in candidate mailers. . . . But postal spokesman Art Martinez says the big bulge never came; political mail here is running about 400,000 pieces a day, which he says is no particular headache. Martinez explains: “We’re told that candidates’ budgets just didn’t allow for the kind of mailing many of them wanted to do.”