I believe this came up in the 80’s when Ronald ■■■■■■ was president. He gave all federal workers(not military in critical positions) the Friday after X-mas off(the holiday fell on a Thursday that year) .plus the weekend which usually are off days for civil servants. A nice 4-day weekend!.
Postal workers had to deliver mail on Sat. since, by law, mail delivery can’t be stopped for more than 3 consecutive days. One of the reasons most major federal holidays fall on either Friday or Monday. Banks can’t be officially closed more than 3 days in a row, either. Access to financial services( law was written before ATM’s) and mail delivery are both considered basic in-person services.
Does his executive order preclude the original law? Not that it matters much to us…we’re retired and everyday is a holiday!!’
No. Just like it didn’t in 2014 when ■■■■■ also declared the 26th as a holiday, or when Trump did similar things in his first term (and others have done it as well; it’s almost routine, which makes sense. Otherwise so many people would take off that the ones who showed up might have nothing to do, or else be unable to handle what was asked if they deal with the public).
For us, it’s almost the opposite; we’re retired, so we work EVERY day.
For some strange reason I have actually had MORE orders for today (Monday) and tomorrow (Tuesday) than I did last week when items might have actually made it to the buyer before Christmas!
It’s a weird world out there but the sales are nice for cash flow…
As did I (at least on the Amazon side).
I think that for me at least was the fact that for much of last week (which included a “holiday” for cataract surgery), I rarely had the BB, as my delivery dates went to past Xmas, so lost it to those who delivered faster, even at a higher price; or in many cases, there was no BB at all for Used books. Once we hit the weekend, BB came back for everything, since no one is delivering before Xmas.
A bit ironic, since I decided that leading up to the cut-off, I would ship as fast as possible to try to get things received by Xmas; then all but one order I got over the last 3-4 days leading up to that were obviously NOT Xmas related; things like “The Kosher Kitchen”, a book by Elie Wiesel, and about a half dozen other Jewish related themes. And somehow I doubt that a $400 book about fluid dynamics is a Xmas present…
