Juneteenth Holiday

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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.

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Thank you @Picks_by_Nisha!
A well-timed reminder :united_states:

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Thanks for the reminder!

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I wonder if I will live long enough to remember this without a reminder.

Absolutely would not have remembered it this year.

Thank you!

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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…

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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).