Post Office closed tomorrow (June 19)

mormel20 · ‎06-27-2013

Just a heads up: The Post Office will be closed tomorrow as well as some Banks. For Juneteenth.

chessylady · ‎05-01-2010

Happy Juneteenth everyone!

Meowingkitty · ‎06-19-2010

Darn, I guess my junk mail will get delivered Thursday.

Greeneyedlady21 · ‎01-06-2015

What about the actual meaning of the holiday?

Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States.

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

RetRN · ‎10-01-2013

I thought this post was to inform others that the post office will be closed. Plain and simple, some people may not have known.

Lakelife62 · ‎05-09-2023

@Greeneyedlady21 wrote:
What about the actual meaning of the holiday?

Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States.

The history behind it is fascinating, isn't it? Who knew that it took 2 years for slaves in to get word that they could be free? The last freed slaves were in Texas. Fom CNN:

A blend of the words June and nineteenth, it marks June 19, 1865: the day that Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, proclaiming that the enslaved African Americans there were free.

“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free,” the order read. “This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor.”

Freedom for the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas, came two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation .