# Prediction: Postal Service shutdown

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-postal-service-shutdown/918138>\
**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")\
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**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-postal-service-shutdown/918138/134 "2020-08-20T13:26:14Z")

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> [@The Post Office surrenders---why so easily?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-office-surrenders-why-so-easily/918480):
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> The post office just announced that they will not be carrying out the changes which they had declared just last week to be of utmost importance. Why did they surrender so easily? Trump appointed the Dejoy as director for the obvious reason of disrupting the election. And sure enough, Dejoy immediately -and proudly-announced that the U.S. mail could not promise to deliver absentee ballots in time for election day. Then they began dismantling machinery and mail drop-boxes. Now today, they sud…

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