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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumseBay apparently thinks that Boxing Day has to do with the sport of boxing.
This is an image which I just now snipped from an eBay promotion page:

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eBay apparently thinks that Boxing Day has to do with the sport of boxing. (Original Post)
John1956PA
Dec 2013
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dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)1. I assume that's ebay.com
Don't think anyone would be daft enough to do that on ebay.co.uk
malaise
(297,413 posts)2. Only Commonwealth countries celebrate Boxing Day
I love it...need the rest.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)3. I assume its a public holiday where you are too.
malaise
(297,413 posts)4. Oh yes - we shut down from Tuesday
until next Monday. I'm lovin' it.
We're going to Sting tonight - for the first time in over a decade. We said we retired from Sting but we want to see Supercat.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)6. A lot of the UK is shut down until January 2nd.
Most of my friends would tell you I stopped work some indeterminant time before 1992 and have yet to go back.
Wish I could join you
hatrack
(65,039 posts)5. So . . . ignorant question, but . . .
What the hell is Boxing Day anyway?
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)9. Its the day after Christmas day
which in the UK and the Commonwealth is a public holiday.
yewberry
(6,530 posts)8. Oh, no.
Wow, that's embarrassing.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)10. So did I until I met my British husband.