Will you be getting mail on the 4th of July?
Are you still waiting on the stimulus checks? Maybe your grandmother sent you a new sweater that she hand-sewed for your birthday, in July, that your parents will make you wear once in a thank you letter. Maybe you’re still waiting on that Ovaltine decoder ring that you sent away for in 1930-something. Well, come on July 4th, you can stop waiting. It won’t be arriving. At least not on that day.
Since the 4th of July lands on a Saturday, there may be some confusion about whether or not mail and packages will still be delivered. The mailmen and women don’t deliver on Sundays, so you’d think that they’d deliver on Saturday at least. Well, as the 4th of July is a federal holiday, that means all federally operated and funded agencies, like the U.S. Postal Service, won’t be open. All staff members and drivers will have the day off, meaning anything still sitting in your local post office at closing on July 3 will be there until July 6. After all, July 5 is a Sunday.
That also means you can’t send any packages either. If you go to your local post office, you will see that it’s closed and unable to take any of your mail or packages inside. You can probably still drop off anything that can fit inside of the mail slots but anything larger than that will have to wait to be shipped come Monday, July 6.
Remember to celebrate the 4th of July safely and responsibly. If you’re going out, get a designated driver. If you’re heading to a party please practice social distancing and if you plan on being inside and around people, please do your best to wear a mask. Let’s all look out for one another.