# The Post Office surrenders---why so easily?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-office-surrenders-why-so-easily/918480
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [August 19, 2020, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-office-surrenders-why-so-easily/918480 "2020-08-19T08:04:15Z")
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### Author: ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-office-surrenders-why-so-easily/918480/39 "2020-08-20T13:25:45Z")

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Cross-posting a link to a closely related thread:

> [@Prediction: Postal Service shutdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prediction-postal-service-shutdown/918138):
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> Trump and his stooge of a Postmaster General are going to shut down the Postal Service about 2 weeks before the election. People will complain there’s critical (non-election) mail that has to be delivered and it won’t matter. They’ll do it anyway.

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