There's No Need to End Saturday Mail Delivery - Bernie Sanders

[SheilaT]

3. Basically, all those Monday holidays

are days we don't get mail.

Those who work for the Federal Govt get all the holidays. Good for them, but it has consequences. Not only do we not get mail those days, but their workload is greatly increased immediately thereafter.

It's not discussed much, but there is a real tension between holidays and people in many work areas having those days off, and the fact that the work then does not get done those days.

Don't get me wrong. I'm in favor of holidays, especially as I have almost always worked jobs where I've worked holidays. That means I'm acutely aware of the fact that a lot of work must still happen those holidays: the very necessary things like police, fire fighters, hospitals, airlines, and so on vs the fact that offices are generally closed (depending on the holiday of course) and the fact that a lot of businesses are open on essentially a volunteer basis, such as retail. Food establishments might theoretically be considered voluntarily open, but in reality the expectation is that they are open 7 days a week 52 weeks a year. I'm old enough to recall when Monday was a traditional day for restaurants to be closed, but that has pretty much disappeared by now.

It is also my observation that those who work office jobs with weekends and holidays off simply have no comprehension of what those other jobs are really like.