It has been posted. I hope it gets there in time - even if I'd filled it in, found someone to countersign it, and taken it to the post office yesterday, the day it arrived, it would have been pushing it. Not sure what the point is of providing overseas voters with ballot papers if you're not going to take account of the fact that it takes that little bit longer in the post, both on the way there and the way back. This being a solid Labour seat I wouldn't put it past them to deliberately delay sending them, for the same reason Thatcher extended the franchise to people who'd been out of the country for twenty years. Trouble with this conspiracy theory is that Other Half's envelope arrived from the three-way marginal, Lib Dem last time electorate only one day before mine did...

Don't think much of the security on the postal ballot (and yes, it appeared to be exactly the same packet that they send out for domestic postal ballots, complete with pre-franked return envelope). I can see why there was much lamenting last year about a return to voting the way the boss or the husband told you to vote. :-(