With all the discussion about which day the USPS and therefore Amazon is on holiday for July 4, I wanted to remind everyone that THIS Friday is Juneteenth, and is a holiday, so no USPS.
Thank you @Picks_by_Nisha!
A well-timed reminder 
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Thanks for the reminder!
I wonder if I will live long enough to remember this without a reminder.
Absolutely would not have remembered it this year.
Thank you!
Our town provides a recycling calendar, which stays stuck to the fridge so I can remember what to recycle on what week. If it didn’t have the holidays in red, I doubt I would have remembered. I figure that it’s new enough that you and I are not the only ones.
Of course, I still have to remember to actually get the recycling to the street…
We’re probably going to shut down our Amazon store for all of Wednesday because we have everything on a two -day handling time. That means Wednesday orders won’t be required to ship until Monday – five days later. I don’t want angry customers ticked off because their book hasn’t shipped sooner. But I also don’t want to ship 2+ days early and screw up my handling time gap. Thursday orders not shipping until Monday (on a regular week when there is no holiday in between) or Tuesday (because of the holiday) is bad enough.
Scheduling a personalized holiday wouldn’t help the situation – that would just mean a further extension of the handling time.
I realize we will lose some orders, but honestly as a frequent online buyer myself I think I might not like a 5-day lag time either.
I think some customers might be inclined to complain – or possibly cancel an order – partly because Juneteenth is not one of the major holidays and is one that some people are not even aware of or, in some cases, don’t approve of. (Not making a political comment there,. I have no problem with the holiday myself. Just observing that some have opposing viewpoints.) The fact that three of those five days are non-business days won’t matter or even occur to some buyers (I’m thinking of the ones who barely know their mailing address).
I have an item that has to ship today. Listed with one day handling, order came in at 2pm yesterday.
It is now 8am Tuesday June 16th.
This is what amazon offers for shipping;
Note UPS/USPS delivers on Saturday, though UPS often now delivers the last mile. UPS Ground Thursday, and USPS Ground DisAdvantage cubic delivers Tuesday. And Ground DisAdvantage is Monday, that difference has never made sense to me.
As it relates to the real life, realitys, regarding the conversation in this thread.