Any Postal Workers here?

[tvguy]

I'm confused. My mail carrier just finished delivering mail on my street. I thought today was President's Day, a Federal Holiday. I checked the U.S. Post Office Website and it IS a Post Office Holiday. Anyone with inside information why they are out delivering mail today?

 

[Marrila]

I'm confused. My mail carrier just finished delivering mail on my street. I thought today was President's Day, a Federal Holiday. I checked the U.S. Post Office Website and it IS a Post Office Holiday. Anyone with inside information why they are out delivering mail today?

Yes it is a federal holiday.
If you are very curious maybe call your post office tomorrow and ask.

 

[easyas123]

Not a postal worker, however as I understand it sometimes Priority Mail is delivered on Federal Holidays. With that being said I have no personal experience with that so I think Marrila's suggestion is best for a definitive answer.

 

[tvguy]

Not a postal worker, however as I understand it sometimes Priority Mail is delivered on Federal Holidays. With that being said I have no personal experience with that so I think Marrila's suggestion is best for a definitive answer.

Just caught me off guard, I would not have even checked my mail today if I had not seen him making the rounds. It was regular mail he delivered to my house, including the usual junk mail.

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

Was it just regular mail? Or packages? My cousin is mail carrier and they have a contract with Amazon to deliver packages. On Sundays and holidays he will deliver packages until 12-1 pm.

 

[amcnj]

Odd that you received regular mail today. I knew packages were a possibility, and did see a mail truck out and about and assumed that was what they were doing

 

[tvguy]

Was it just regular mail? Or packages? My cousin is mail carrier and they have a contract with Amazon to deliver packages. On Sundays and holidays he will deliver packages until 12-1 pm.

Just regular mail. I will have to check my cameras to see if they mail truck came by Saturday. We did not get any mail Saturday, but no idea if that was because they had no mail to deliver to us or if they had no one to deliver it. I guess our route could have gotten skipped Saturday and today was a makeup run. That happened once before that I am aware of. A mailman came by at like 9 am, not our regular mail carrier and I commented he was early. He said it was because our route did not get run the day before, and that our regular mailman would be by later with that day's mail.

 

[irlandaise]

We did not get any mail Saturday, but no idea if that was because they had no mail to deliver to us or if they had no one to deliver it.

Do you have Informed Delivery? It isn't perfect, but it's accurate most of the time.

 

[tvguy]

Do you have Informed Delivery? It isn't perfect, but it's accurate most of the time.

I do not. Several people in my local neighborhood Facebook group call it "Informed Frustration" because the accuracy is questionable. It shows a mix of stuff that has already been delivered, with items that did arrive that day, with items that may not show up for days.

 

[focusondisney]

There is no regular mail delivery today. Did you actually see the mail truck delivering to your mailbox today? There have been days our carrier hasn’t delivered mail until well past 5 pm, in fact 1 day last week it was just before 6 pm. It’s possible you saw priority deliveries being made, checked your box & found mail in your box that was actually there since Saturday.

If it was a regular route delivery, something strange going on in your post office. We’ve had significant blizzard/ snow storm issues which have disrupted our mail delivery for a few days. Even after that, we’ve never had deliveries on Sundays or holidays.

 

[irlandaise]

Do you have Informed Delivery? It isn't perfect, but it's accurate most of the time.

I do not. Several people in my local neighborhood Facebook group call it "Informed Frustration" because the accuracy is questionable. It shows a mix of stuff that has already been delivered, with items that did arrive that day, with items that may not show up for days.

Perhaps some reporting bias there. I recommend giving it a try. Although USPS does warn that items in ID may not arrive that day, I've found it overall very accurate.