Early Morning Show Dec 24th & 26th added to Federal Holidays for 2025

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While watching the early morning news this morning, checking up on the RI and MA suspect status the following was broadcast.

The news service announced, “President Trump has indicated that Wednesday and Friday next week will be a Federal Holiday.”

Now my first thought was, well that is not much notice. My wife works for a bank now and took off those days next week. Then it appears, this is just for employees of the federal government.

Ok, no worries on the Bank and all the people she works with in the region.

Then after a few hours I got thinking, this will shut down the USPS for those days. For those of us in eCommerce, this is not a busy time around December 25th, Even so I thought we all should know and think about how it may cause issues with our trade.

Then it hit me, how in the world will Amazon deal with this on such short notice in the middle of the holiday rush?

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According to the USPS, they are open both days.
This may change as people scramble to figure out what’s going on.

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That would be smart, they broadcast it at 6am this morning. I would be surprised if the USPS even knew.

Though they always deliver on Christmas Eve. While not a big day for them, an important one for them and us.

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I found the official release from the White House. It came early yesterday evening.

PROVIDING FOR THE CLOSING OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND
AGENCIES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON DECEMBER 24, 2025, AND DECEMBER 26, 2025

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Wednesday, December 24, 2025, and Friday, December 26, 2025, the day before and the day following Christmas Day, respectively.

Sec. 2. The heads of executive departments and agencies may determine that certain offices and installations of their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open and that certain employees must report for duty on December 24, 2025, or December 26, 2025, or both, for reasons of national security, defense, or other public need.

Sec. 3. December 24, 2025, and December 26, 2025, shall be considered as falling within the scope of Executive Order 11582 of February 11, 1971, and of 5 U.S.C. 5546 and 6103(b) and other similar statutes insofar as they relate to the pay and leave of employees of the United States.

Sec. 4. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall take such actions as may be necessary to implement this order.

Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

© This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

(d) The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Office of Personnel Management.

Name of the guy in the White House Here (1)
THE WHITE HOUSE,

December 18, 2025.

(1) Removed to avoid holding the posting up like the original one was.

So I expect the USPS could stay open, that is under control of the management. My issue was the short notice. I understand that it has been done by other presidents in the past, though I can not remember when, even traveling around the sun as often as I have.

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I could use a five day holiday weekend…

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Could this become a two week event … with 12/31/2025 and 1/2/2026 of the following week?

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As could we. A regional customer, that we must work on site in holiday time gave us a wave off.

It would have been nice to know, for planning a rare holiday. If in fact the Fed one works out.

May as well, no one is doing anything right now. More than I ever remember.

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Just dropped our packages off at USPS this morning. Our USPS supervisor said that USPS will be open on both 12/24/2025 and 12/26/2025. The only way USPS would get the extended holiday would be if congress put it into law. And even if congress did this, it wouldn’t be until the following year before USPS would observe it do to it being so close to the event. He noted that when Juneteenth happened that the post office didn’t recognize the first year because of the same circumstances.

With all of that said … we would still check your local USPS office to verify.

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This is not an unusual proclamation for those times that Xmas in on Thursday. And AFAIK, the USPS still operates.
Even a few years ago, when Juneteenth became a real Federal Holiday, it was on short notice, so USPS stayed open that year to prevent unplanned disruption.

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Ah shucks… take the 5 days off anyways. We all work so hard with our lives that we could definitely use the downtime. It might be a mental challenge, for sure. It always is for me when just having one day off. So used to getting up and checking sales, email, and all the things in my routine. I feel guilty when doing nothing work-related. Always feels like I should be doing something. Maybe I can binge watch Smokey and the Bandit. The last time I watched any of them was before I got married.

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How unusual. :rofl:

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We have 28 more days for this year with Amazon Custom Holidays. Thinking of putting 12/24 and 12/26 as custom holidays and labeling them as a “New Federal Holiday #1 2025” and “New Federal Holiday #2 2025” … and, if Amazon asks, we will state that we work for the IRS and report to them once a year no later than April 15th.

:smirking_face:

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A post has been removed as it was political.

I know I know, this is a borderline political thread, but holidays do effect all of us as sellers. So yeah, I get it, tightrope.

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My sales stopped this past Monday. I expect all of my orders will be delivered before the 24 and do not care about any late buyers who might turn up.

FAIP I am on vacation now.

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And I don’t think it was one of mine (for a change). Oops, wrong forum… :rofl:

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Suffering from withdrawals?

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It’s actually somewhat like going through withdrawal from what I have heard. I never got to that point when I quit drinking but I did have an employee that did.

But it’s also like watching a slow motion train wreck when I look at posts and seeing no responses to sellers that are clearly headed to a suspension. And, I check in there once in a while and still have notifications from prior posts.

I do have time (no energy) to add a few thousand listings to eBay and another site that I have not gotten around to in the last decade so that’s a positive!

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Well, April and I try, but we (at least I) don’t have the breadth of knowledge that you have.

Although frankly, most of the threads I see seem to be not sellers “headed to a suspension”, but ones that have already run off the tracks. Amazing how many of them it’s their first post to the forums…

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Yeah, all the junk peddlers, dropship companies, and, OA/RA shills on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, and elsewhere make it look so easy. AND Amazon is complicit by not requiring even a basic exam before sellers can be granted access, in addition to their inconsistencies in what is required/accepted.

Hopefully a few knowledgeable people here will do some posts there.

I always looked at what I was doing more of a warning to OTHER sellers than a message to the OP that was already in trouble.

But, like a canary in the Amazon coal mine … :smiling_face_with_horns:

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Ditto. Of course, the problem with that logic is that the evidence seems to indicate that no one that might actually benefit from such advice ever reads the forums prior to being suspended. (one today asked about a supplier; didn’t bother to look at the 20+ that a Search shows just from the last couple of months, as pointed out by someone).

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