Why is the post office closed?

[Breakaway500]

Just went to the post office and it's closed. Continued on to the UPS store and dropped off a package and I asked them about the closing.

"It's Juneteenth..a federal holiday".

OK..thanks.

I guess I don't pay much attention, nowadays..

 

[Onomea]

I was wondering when it became a national holiday, too. (Fine with me that it is, and I think it a good thing, but I have only heard about Juneteenth and its significance in recent years.)

 

[Muss Muggins]

Started in 2021 . . .

 

[DWalt]

It was formerly a legal state holiday only for Texas since 1979, nowhere else to my knowledge.

 

[noonster]

The day that slavery officially ended in TX. The rest of the US later.

 

[crstrode]

The day that slavery officially ended in TX. The rest of the US later.

Sorry. No soup for you.

Slavery was over before this event - everywhere - even in Texas.

This date is when some folks in Texas were reminded that it had happened earlier.

History is easy - unless you are illiterate.

 

[Retired W4]

I put a check out in the box for Lee. Then, after I found out about the federal holiday I brought it in. Wonderful.

 

[Bald1]

Yes they had to March into Galveston and make them understand.

 

[Kanewpadle]

Sorry. No soup for you.

Slavery was over before this event - everywhere - even in Texas.

This date is when some folks in Texas were reminded that it had happened earlier.

History is easy - unless you are illiterate.

Evidently history isn’t always easy.

Slaves in Texas didn’t know they were free until two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. On June 19th 1865.

 

[swsig]

Juneteenth has long been celebrated in Texas. It became a Federal holiday thanks to a 40+ year effort by Opal Lee, a Fort Worth schoolteacher. She is now a spry and feisty 97 year-old, and appears regularly year-round in the DFW news media. Her PR staff makes the PR staff of the Kardashians look like rank amateurs. However, unlike the Kardashians, she has a life-long history of substantial accomplishments, so she's earned her fame legitimately.

Here's her bio: Opal Lee - Wikipedia

 

[walnutred]

I wish they had chosen Emancipation Day, April 16th, to be the Federal holiday. Yes, it took a couple more years and many thousand additional deaths to make it stick but that was a historical event. I guess the man that signed the papers belonged to the wrong political party for the day to be Federalized.

 

[twodog max]

I agree call it what it is Emancipation Day.

 

[mike4sigs]

DO NOT get me started. It is Freedom Day.
Federal Holiday that most of us do NOT get the day off. unless you are a Federal or state Employee

 

[Chuck24]

When I was in the postal service I hated holidays. All it ever did for you was let you do two days work in one day. Monday holidays were the worst. We were already slammed on Monday anyway and then you had to roll that over to Tuesday. I was glad when I got enough seniority to just take off the day after the holiday. The sub loved it since he was an hourly employee and could make the OT,where I couldn’t. I would much rather they were open on all but a few holidays and just add to our AL.

 

[smoothshooter]

Evidently history isn’t always easy.

Slaves in Texas didn’t know they were free until two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. On June 19th 1865.

Slavery did not come to on Indian Tribal Lands until much later.

 

[glenwolde]

Uh...the Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to all the States. There were exemptions for some, either entirely Union or their sympathizers. In general it outlawed slavery in rebellious states with a few border-state, on the fence, exemptions. Go figure out what state was the last to abolish slavery. It was a Union state.

Texas was not the last State to abolish slavery. It was the last Confederate state to abolish slavery. Because a General with an army said they had to. At that point in time there was still more than one exempt state where slavery was still legal.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Actually no. History is easy, unless you’re illiterate. Slavery ended in the secessionist states with the Emancipation Proclamation. Didn’t end everywhere until December 6, 1865 with the 13th Amendment. No soup for you . . .

Sorry. No soup for you.

Slavery was over before this event - everywhere - even in Texas.

This date is when some folks in Texas were reminded that it had happened earlier.

History is easy - unless you are illiterate.

 

[444 Magnum]

Actually no. History is easy, unless you’re illiterate. Slavery ended in the secessionist states with the Emancipation Proclamation. Didn’t end everywhere until December 6, 1865 with the 13th Amendment. No soup for you . . .

Yep, Delaware was one that clung on to the last. The state ratified the 13th amendment on Feb. 12, 1901 !

What a bummer a little knowledge is.

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[Muss Muggins]

Yep, Delaware was one that clung on to the last. The state ratified the 13th amendment on Feb. 12, 1901 !

What a bummer a little knowledge is.

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But it was already the law of the land. Form over function . . .

 

[Muley Gil]

Actually no. History is easy, unless you’re illiterate. Slavery ended in the secessionist states with the Emancipation Proclamation. Didn’t end everywhere until December 6, 1865 with the 13th Amendment. No soup for you . . .

If that is true, WHY did the Confederate states have to be RE-ADMITTED to the Union???????????????