# Prediction: Postal Service shutdown **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 15, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-postal-service-shutdown/918138 "2020-08-15T00:29:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 121
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-postal-service-shutdown/918138/121 "2020-08-18T22:40:31Z")
We had this discoussion several weeks ago, on July 3-4, in the “How Trump can lose and stay on” thread, starting with this post: > [@How Trump can lose and stay on. Opinions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-trump-can-lose-and-stay-on-opinions/834091/56): > > The problem with threads like this is is that they focus too much on Trump. According to that [title and section of federal law](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/15#:~:text=votes%20in%20Congress-,3%20U.S.%20Code%20%C2%A7,Counting%20electoral%20votes%20in%20Congress&text=Congress%20shall%20be%20in%20session,every%20meeting%20of%20the%20electors.), the guy who officially announces the election result is Mike Pence: [quote] . . . the President of the Senate, who shall thereupon announce the of the vote, which announcement shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons, if any, elected President and Vice President of the United[ States, and, together with a list of the votes, be entered on the Journals … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-postal-service-shutdown/918138)._