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YaksterYakster Posts: 27,902 ✭✭✭✭✭

Yes, Veterans Day.

Upcoming:

THURSDAY
November 26 Thanksgiving Day

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  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,672 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bank was closed today too.
    (Grumble grumble)

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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,902 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm thinking we just bump this thread on holidays to give each other a heads up.

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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,902 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No?

    Appears the Post Office is open today Friday November 27th, at least according to their website.

    They were closed yesterday and will be closed again on Christmas day.

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  • NorCalR1NorCalR1 Posts: 4,197 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I can confirm they are open just dropped off a couple packages

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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,902 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Open today, closed tomorrow.

    Merry Christmas!

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  • NorCalR1NorCalR1 Posts: 4,197 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I guess I will wait until Saturday.

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  • ForMudForMud Posts: 2,336 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I just gave my mailman a few cigars for Christmas.....So yes they are open today.

  • deadmandeadman Posts: 8,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Open. Went to my brothers house, came home and the mailman left my daughter’s senior pictures on the steps in the rain. Luckily the water hadn’t got through the interior box.

  • deadmandeadman Posts: 8,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Old mail lady would put things in a bag if she suspected rain. New mail people act like they delivering newspapers, throw it out the window as they drive by

  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,894 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @deadman said:
    Old mail lady would put things in a bag if she suspected rain. New mail people act like they delivering newspapers, throw it out the window as they drive by

    Millennial work ethic

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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,902 ✭✭✭✭✭

    USPS is open today, here's the 2021 Holiday closure list.

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  • Diver43Diver43 Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭✭✭

    January 12, 2021
    In Transit, Arriving Late
    Your package will arrive later than expected, but is still on its way. It is currently in transit to the next facility.
    January 7, 2021, 4:10 am
    Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
    JERSEY CITY NJ NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    January 7, 2021, 2:37 am
    Departed USPS Regional Facility
    STAMFORD CT DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    January 6, 2021, 7:39 pm
    Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
    STAMFORD CT DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    January 5, 2021, 5:58 pm
    Departed Post Office
    PEABODY, MA 01960
    January 5, 2021, 5:16 pm
    USPS in possession of item
    PEABODY, MA 01960
    January 5, 2021, 2:20 pm
    Shipping Label Created, USPS Awaiting Item
    PEABODY, MA 01960

    It appears that the USPS has been closed for a week.

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  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 21,080 ✭✭✭✭✭

    lol, at least it is going in a straight line south. I had one take a 1 week vacation in Puerto Rico this fall.

  • Diver43Diver43 Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They may not be closed, but this is part of a trip that a package heading toward me has taken. Why in the world would it make a U-Turn and go North?

    January 16, 2021, 11:59 am
    Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
    SPRINGFIELD MA NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    Your item arrived at our USPS facility in SPRINGFIELD MA NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER on January 16, 2021 at 11:59 am. The item is currently in transit to the destination.
    January 15, 2021, 5:42 pm
    Departed USPS Regional Facility
    MIAMI FL DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    January 15, 2021, 6:39 am
    Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
    MIAMI FL DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    January 15, 2021, 2:37 am
    Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
    WEST PALM BEACH FL DISTRIBUTION CENTER

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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,902 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes, closed today.

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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,902 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2021

    Might be closed tomorrow June 18th for Juneteenth.

    Stores, post offices, and other organizations and businesses are likely to be open as usual, but some may be closed or have restricted opening hours in some areas. Many public transit services operate on their usual schedule, but there may be some changes.

    Thanks for the heads-up, @VegasFrank.

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  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,672 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What the hell is Juneteenth? Celebrating more nonsense?

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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,902 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nonsense?

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  • VegasFrankVegasFrank Posts: 18,333 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    What the hell is Juneteenth? Celebrating more nonsense?

    Just the end of slavery in the Western world.

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  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,672 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I had to Google it.

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  • VegasFrankVegasFrank Posts: 18,333 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    I had to Google it.

    Well, now you know.

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  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,672 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lol.

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  • Cam_91Cam_91 Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2021

    @ShawnOL said:
    Lol.

    You’re cancelled lmao

  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,672 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm surprised it wasn't already a holiday.

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  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2021

    @ShawnOL said:
    What the hell is Juneteenth? Celebrating more nonsense?

    Lincoln proclaimed emancipation of slaves in unconquered Confederate states in what, 1863? It was a war measure to raise hell behind enemy lines. It wasn't until two years later, June 19th 1865, that Union soldiers brought emancipation to Texas. Negroes began to celebrate, dancing in the streets. That is what inspired Juneteenth.

    750,000 soldiers died in the Civil War. That's 2 1/2% of the populationm at the time. If 2.5% died today, that would be round about seven million. About 8k have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Think about it.

    Soldiers on both sides were conscripted. Think about that. Is it more fun to be enslaved for labor or for murder?

    Southern soldiers were outnumbered 2 1/2 to one. So Democrats didn't stand a chance in the end. Especially since both industry and boatbuilding were concentrated in the North.

    Juneteenth didn't end slavery in the Western Hemisphere. Brazil had slaves until almost the end of the century.

    It didn't end slavery world wide, either. In fact, just a couple years ago, when Trump kicked ISIS' butt, thousands of sex slaves were freed. I remember when Mauritania officially made slavery illegal in Bush's time. But making it illegal didn't end it. Just made Mauritania smell better to the UN, I spose. Prolly some kinda monetary aid on the table.

    I really think there ought to be something or other to commemorate the British Anti-Slavery Society that promoted the idea of universal freedom for so long. Same society flourished among the Quakers here. The idea was derived from the European Enlightenment the century before. Certainly, the world owes a great debt to the British Navy finally turning that idea into reality round the world. Ironically, that same navy was manned by pressed sailors during that era. So you had crews of white Brits conked on the head and dragged to sea to end slave traffic from Zanzibar to Coromandel, both ways around. History is stranger than fiction.

    When considered comprehensively, near universal manumission is a magnificent achievement of white supremacy only made possible by imperialism. Wrap your head around that.

    The people who make it their obsession to know complain that there are more millions of slaves now than ever... partly as an unintended consequence of ending imperialism, and partly as forced labor. Estimates vary around forty million. They don't just count Uighurs forced to make your iPhones, but include oriental fishing boats, the gal who gave Bob Kraft a happy ending, Chinese organ harvesting, and even African children in rebel armies. Just last year, a half dozen youngsters from Mali tried to sue Nestle here in the USA because they had been kidnapped and forced to pick chocolate in Ivory Coast. Cobalt, so crucial to making batteries on which the green revolution depends, is notoriously mined in the Congo by forced child labor. As a result, couple years ago, a similar law suit was brought by several Congolese parents against everyone from Apple to Google to Microsoft and Dell. Lawyers get rich but slavery continues.

    Then there's this, from Winston Churchill:

    The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

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  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,672 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Why not just call it Emancipation Day?

    Seems like some people (D) might not want to give credit where credit is due (R) for freeing the slaves from those wonderful (D)s.

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  • VegasFrankVegasFrank Posts: 18,333 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2021

    @webmost said:

    @ShawnOL said:
    What the hell is Juneteenth? Celebrating more nonsense?

    Lincoln proclaimed emancipation of slaves in unconquered Confederate states in what, 1863? It was a war measure to raise hell behind enemy lines. It wasn't until two years later, June 19th 1865, that Union soldiers brought emancipation to Texas. Negroes began to celebrate, dancing in the streets. That is what inspired Juneteenth.

    750,000 soldiers died in the Civil War. That's 2 1/2% of the populationm at the time. If 2.5% died today, that would be round about seven million. About 8k have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Think about it.

    Soldiers on both sides were conscripted. Think about that. Is it more fun to be enslaved for labor or for murder?

    Southern soldiers were outnumbered 2 1/2 to one. So Democrats didn't stand a chance in the end. Especially since both industry and boatbuilding were concentrated in the North.

    Juneteenth didn't end slavery in the Western Hemisphere. Brazil had slaves until almost the end of the century.

    It didn't end slavery world wide, either. In fact, just a couple years ago, when Trump kicked ISIS' butt, thousands of sex slaves were freed. I remember when Mauritania officially made slavery illegal in Bush's time. But making it illegal didn't end it. Just made Mauritania smell better to the UN, I spose. Prolly some kinda monetary aid on the table.

    I really think there ought to be something or other to commemorate the British Anti-Slavery Society that promoted the idea of universal freedom for so long. Same society flourished among the Quakers here. The idea was derived from the European Enlightenment the century before. Certainly, the world owes a great debt to the British Navy finally turning that idea into reality round the world. Ironically, that same navy was manned by pressed sailors during that era. So you had crews of white Brits conked on the head and dragged to sea to end slave traffic from Zanzibar to Coromandel, both ways around. History is stranger than fiction.

    When considered comprehensively, near universal manumission is a magnificent achievement of white supremacy only made possible by imperialism. Wrap your head around that.

    The people who make it their obsession to know complain that there are more millions of slaves now than ever... partly as an unintended consequence of ending imperialism, and partly as forced labor. Estimates vary around forty million. They don't just count Uighurs forced to make your iPhones, but include oriental fishing boats, the gal who gave Bob Kraft a happy ending, Chinese organ harvesting, and even African children in rebel armies. Just last year, a half dozen youngsters from Mali tried to sue Nestle here in the USA because they had been kidnapped and forced to pick chocolate in Ivory Coast. Cobalt, so crucial to making batteries on which the green revolution depends, is notoriously mined in the Congo by forced child labor. As a result, couple years ago, a similar law suit was brought by several Congolese parents against everyone from Apple to Google to Microsoft and Dell. Lawyers get rich but slavery continues.

    Then there's this, from Winston Churchill:

    The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

    ... and now back to your regularly scheduled programming

    :trollface: 🙄

    I felt emancipated the moment this post ended....

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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,902 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Yakster said:
    USPS is open today, here's the 2021 Holiday closure list.

    Open today, closed tomorrow.

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