No Federal mail Thursday June Nineteenth.
 

My younger brother married a Jamaican American lady. This is his 2nd marriage. She had had two kids when they married. One of them is an actor in the movie August Rush with Robin Williams. Pretty good movie IMHO. I have dated African Americans even though the one in the San Francisco Bay area had a nervous breakdown soon after but was still going strong with the Oakland Chorus. I met many members of the Oakland Chorus in November of 1984 when we went to a Thanksgiving dinner with many of them . Most of these people were gay so it was kind of an experience for me. August Rush | Rotten Tomatoes August Rush | Rotten Tomatoes

Younger brother's 2nd wife was in the Navy and served in the support staff of one of the SEAL teams.

Most of our in house home aid people have some African American ancestry. We have been getting in home house care for 4.5 years. Met lots of interesting ladies. They have roots in many parts of Africa and the Caribbean.


My older brother's first wife is the daughter of one of the US Foreign Service officers from Brazil. She grew up there if memory serves.

In December of 1994 I flew from the Chicago area on the dime of North Carolina Central University for an interview for a law library reference position. Nice people. This is a primarily African American law school. They show up on my Facebook page on occasion.

Odd post. Are you throwing shade that you know some fine people? I dont understand your point.
Is thursday a federal holiday?

Yes, Juneteenth is Thursday, and it is a Federal holiday. No mail delivery on Federal holidays.

I had sent something via Priority Mail recently and had thought why is that taking so long to get there and then saw that Thursday is a mail holiday here in the United States .


On another note a number of the female home health care workers we have had in to help with my mother have been in this area of Florida and maybe even within the Villages all their lives. We have had home care people aged 18 to 76 or so. And 90lbs to maybe 360lbs . And maybe 4'11" to 6'3".

Height and weight aside, they won't get mail tomorrow, either.

We have had a lot of Caucasian ladies as well and oddly many of those had the same Leesburg Middle School and high school teachers. The African American ladies, too, had those Leesburg teachers.

Good deal, no bills or junk mail. Now that’s a holiday.

My daughter works at Disney and gets time-and-a-half for working her regular shift. I love Juneteenth.

This definitely one of the strangest threads I’ve read on TOV.

It is basically a day off for government workers. Most everything besides the stock market will be open.

lmao!

Amen to that!

Amen …… don’t see any point to either of them

What are you even talking about and why?

Town of Lady Lake employees are still working.

Another man made paid holiday for government workers. Paid for by all other workers that will be at work today.

Juneteenth is a Federal holiday but is not a Florida state holiday (it is in Maryland)
- USPS, stock market, and (most?) banks will be closed
- Florida state offices will be open
- Local/City offices in Florida may be closed but not likely

Another post mentioned a Disney employee earning time and a half for working today so some private employers treat the day as a holiday as well.

Ok and your point is ?????
Why are you putting a post up ?
There is enough junk mail to read

Note that there are 11 Federal holidays:

New Year's Day: January 1st.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Third Monday in January.
Washington's Birthday: Third Monday in February.
Memorial Day: Last Monday in May.
Juneteenth National Independence Day: June 19th.
Independence Day: July 4th.
Labor Day: First Monday in September.
Columbus Day: Second Monday in October.
Veterans Day: November 11th.
Thanksgiving Day: Fourth Thursday in November.
Christmas Day: December 25th.

There is no mail delivery on any of these days. Also, there is no Federal holiday called Presidents Day, a fact that the national media doesn't seem to understand.

Agreed

You might miss some junk mail but the bills, the bills always come. We all eventually have to pay the bills.

Gives us a reason to keep flags flying between Flag Day and Fourth of July 🤩

Perhaps since less than 1% of the US population is a Federal employee and get the day off under the Federal name, the media is using the more common name for the state or local holiday.

Odd that the third Monday in February will never fall on February 22, Washington's actual birthday. It will also never fall on February 12, Lincoln's birthday. It's almost as if the date was intentionally chosen to be between the two as a way to honor both.

Weird Thread?
 

It seems to be like asking - "What do you think of the price of tea in China?"

Not sure the meaning of this post?
 

Not sure the purpose for this post? There are no questions & you're not asking anything, you're just talking about family & race.������������*♂️

I would just point out that the national media often refers to Presidents Day as being a "Federal" holiday. This is just inaccurate reporting. Where it is a holiday, Presidents Day is a state or local holiday, not Federal. Presidents Day is not a state holiday in Florida.

There is no Federal holiday named Presidents' Day. If the Federal holiday is referred to that way then that is inaccurate.

- "The Federal holiday known as Presidents' Day" is inaccurate
- "Washington's birthday" on any day other than February 22 is inaccurate
- "The third Monday in February that the Federal govt observes as Washington's Birthday, some states observe as Presidents' Day, and others don't observe at all" is accurate but far too long for a name.