Mailchimp DMARC Failures 4% of the time - mailchimp

Here is my weekly Postmark DMARC Digest. I currently have an allow-all DMARC policy. My last 4 weekly digests have all looked pretty similar as far as DKIM and SPF failures.
DMARC Report
I know that Mailchimp can't be SPF-aligned because of the way they configure their service, but it can be DKIM aligned.
As you can see Mailchimp fails DKIM Alignment about 4% of the time. I thought it should be good 99.9% of the time.
Is this normal?
Should I enable a quarantine or reject DMARC policy and lose 4% of my contacts?
Thanks in advance.

Per Mailchimp support:
This can really just boil down to the receiving server's e-mail
settings -- stricter policies are going to filter out e-mails from
major ESPs like Mailchimp and that can result in you seeing some
unexpected results, like what we're seeing here.

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Google: "No, and we won't help you."
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