Is There Mail on Presidents Day?
And Why Do You Even Care?
A brief primer for those who forget from week to week or year to year. There is no mail delivered on Sunday. Ever. And there is no mail delivered on federal holidays. It's that simple. If you keep these basic two rules in mind you will never have to Google this question again.
In their defense, perhaps some people may not realize that Presidents Day is a federal holiday, although there are a few good clues. Presidents are federal officials, so it would be logical that the one day a year on which all presidents are commemorated would be a federal holiday.
Now when I was a little girl and walked ten miles to school in the snow, we had two holidays to celebrate presidents, Lincoln's Birthday and Washington's Birthday. Thus we were better off than the children of today who get only one day off of school, although many school districts provide an entire week off from school this time of year to break the flu cycle, a period which people who still have money refer to as ski week. Remember when people had money?
But I digress.
While researching this article I learned some important facts about Presidents Day about which I was unaware. For instance, did you know that people in New Mexico celebrate the state holiday of Presidents Day on the Friday after Thanksgiving? This obviously has nothing to do with giving a fig about presidents and more to do with giving state employees a nice four day weekend, unless, perhaps, the government of New Mexico is implying that our former presidents were turkeys. (Current New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson may be thinking this about our current White House resident.)
As far as mail delivery on Presidents Day, why do people even care, aside from the fact that it will take an extra day to get your next Netflix movie. Otherwise, don't people pay most of their bills online anymore? I rarely get anything in the mail worthy of opening, except for the occasional free return address stickers which I rarely get to use since I mail so few things these days. In fact, I am still trying to use up 39 cent and 41 cent stamps from a couple of years ago. Note to self: Resist the pretty picture stamps and buy only Forever stamps from now on.
In conclusion, no Virginia, there is no mail delivered on Presidents Day, although you can still receive packages from FedEx and UPS. You can even have a pizza delivered with hot wings and breadsticks.
Just no mail.
See also: How to Celebrate Presidents Day
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23 Comments
Post a CommentAlthough I go to a state school and we don't have this federal holiday off...and our campus mail center is open. Also, given that I live in New Orleans one can never tell when mail is going to get delivered...I regularly don't have any delivery service for a day or two in the middle of the week (and no, its not because I dont have mail coming - no one in my apartment gets any and they dont come pick up outgoing mail either). So...maybe it is more complicated than you may think (as things so often are...)
Wrong, about there NEVER being delivery on a Sunday. In some localities mail IS delivered on Sunday as opposed to Saturday. One being the city of Loma Linda in California, that due to the fact that a large percentage of its residents are Seventh Day Adventists and Saturday is their Sabbath day.
I must say, this has been one of the best written articles I have EVER read on the internet. Thank you Tracy for the good laugh.
What a SMUG Writer..!..You Tracy..!
New Mexico does not observe Presidents Day in February because the Legislature is in session and they only have either a 30 or 60 day window to conduct and finalize business for the fiscal year.
These two Pres. Day articles are great fun.
Maybe it will help people to know that, to the Post Office, it is not known as President's Day but as Washington's Birthday, which is the legal name for the holiday do to President Nixon's screwup when he combined Washington and Lincoln's birthdays to create the holiday. So the P.O. probably posts it by its legal name--Washington's Birthday. (See my quiz on U.S. holidays on AC.)
People want to know.
Bob is wearing his undies too tight.
Nifty info about Mexico.