Posted on 12/03/2018 4:53:11 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
(Meredith) -- In honor of former President George H.W. Bush's funeral, the U.S. Postal Service says regular mail deliveries will be suspended on Wednesday.
The Postal Service will continue some delivery services in preparation for the holiday season.
"We will provide limited package delivery service on that day to ensure that our network remains fluid and we do not experience any impacts to our package delivery operations that might negatively affect our customers or business partners during the remainder of our busy holiday season, " the Postal Service said in a statement.
Yay, no junk mail!
Any excuse for another day off.
Is this standard procedure?
Wait for the next day onslaught.
How I despise junk mail.
Wait for the next day onslaught.
How I despise junk mail.
Wait for the next day onslaught.
How I despise junk mail.
For all I care, the US Postal Service can just close up Wednesday for good. They do nothing useful anymore.
What the heck? During their busiest week of the year? That old bastard GHWB is ruining the holidays for everyone...but esp. for all the swamp creatures in Congress, etc., who can’t make the party rounds this week. Next week watch poor old Jimmuh kick off, and spoil New Year’s festivities for all of them!
It’s not standard procedure to shut down the stock market, I know that.
The USPS can’t even get deliveries right on any day of the week, so this means nothing.
Ops Normal.
I thought this was satire.
Seriously? We stop delivering because of ex pres dying?
Why don’t I recall this for Reagan? Never mind Ford?
Yep I wonder how old Jimmy Carter is doing? He’s 94 years old just as Bush was. He could pass on anytime.
Although Bill and Hillary are decades younger, I frankly would not be shocked to hear one day if either one was gone. Both of them seem to be in poor health.
Why not the day off work with pay?
My wife and I brought a package to USPS to deliver to our daughter in another state. We used a 2-day Priority box and were charged accordingly. The postal guy at the counter said it'll get there by December 18th. My wife complained "Hey, today is the 3rd and the 18th is not two-day delivery!". The postal guy shrugged his shoulders, and said " by the 18th, it's the busy season.". So much for "Priority" mail.
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Why?
Why am I as a taxpayer paying for 100s of thousands of government workers the day off
BS.
They’re still rolling it out for us. Next up we must ‘walk’ to work on our knees and go without eating all day.
Outrageous.
I get the postal working peons wanting a day off for any reason, and especially this time of year.
But their bosses are insane to do this.
And of course we peasants are the ones who get screwed by this in several ways. .....
....Which, come to think of it is probably the main reason they are doing it.
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