# Today, June 19, is Juneteenth with Post Offices, Banks, Federal Offices, etc Closed **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 19, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-june-19-is-juneteenth-with-post-offices-banks-federal-offices-etc-closed/1019852 "2025-06-19T14:56:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-june-19-is-juneteenth-with-post-offices-banks-federal-offices-etc-closed/1019852/1 "2025-06-19T14:56:29Z")
I just now came back from the post office–which was closed. I suppose no one else here is as forgetful as I am–but it’s possible someone else here forgot. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-june-19-is-juneteenth-with-post-offices-banks-federal-offices-etc-closed/1019852/2 "2025-06-19T15:07:05Z")
To be honest, I’m kind of surprised that this administration hasn’t moved to end this holiday (along with, perhaps, MLK Day). That would be consistent with their philosophy. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-june-19-is-juneteenth-with-post-offices-banks-federal-offices-etc-closed/1019852/3 "2025-06-19T15:08:48Z")
Curious if my neighbor down the street is continuing his annual tradition of flying the Confederate Battle Flag in honor of Juneteenth. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-june-19-is-juneteenth-with-post-offices-banks-federal-offices-etc-closed/1019852/4 "2025-06-19T15:16:51Z")
But ATMs will be functional, I’m sure? They always are. Because Mr. brown just left to get some cash for a vacation we’re about to go on. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-june-19-is-juneteenth-with-post-offices-banks-federal-offices-etc-closed/1019852/5 "2025-06-19T15:19:37Z")
Depends, some ATMs have very small federal employees inside doing all the work, those will not be functional. Mechanic ATMs will work fine. Privately manned ATMs may or may not work, depending on the employer… ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-june-19-is-juneteenth-with-post-offices-banks-federal-offices-etc-closed/1019852/6 "2025-06-19T16:01:34Z")
never mind. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-june-19-is-juneteenth-with-post-offices-banks-federal-offices-etc-closed/1019852/7 "2025-06-19T19:15:10Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > I suppose no one else here is as forgetful as I am–but it’s possible someone else here forgot. I did check to see whether the mail had come yet. Then I did a headslap and said to myself, Duh, it’s Juneteenth! (I work through other holidays too; it’s not just this one.) ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-june-19-is-juneteenth-with-post-offices-banks-federal-offices-etc-closed/1019852/8 "2025-06-19T20:17:26Z")
I discovered it was Juneteenth when a US colleague told us he’d accidentally scheduled the meeting we were in on his day off. 😂 ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-june-19-is-juneteenth-with-post-offices-banks-federal-offices-etc-closed/1019852/9 "2025-06-19T20:41:13Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I did check to see whether the mail had come yet. > > Then I did a headslap and said to myself, Duh, it’s Juneteenth! I do that on most holidays and some Sundays. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-june-19-is-juneteenth-with-post-offices-banks-federal-offices-etc-closed/1019852/10 "2025-06-19T21:40:39Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > I just now came back from the post office–which was closed. > > I suppose no one else here is as forgetful as I am–but it’s possible someone else here forgot. Oh, I’m always trying to go to the Post Office on a Federal holiday. It comes from an unstable schedule working in retail combined with having to work a lot of holidays myself, making me a bit oblivious to the schedule the rest of the world is running on. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > To be honest, I’m kind of surprised that this administration hasn’t moved to end this holiday (along with, perhaps, MLK Day). That would be consistent with their philosophy. Same. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-june-19-is-juneteenth-with-post-offices-banks-federal-offices-etc-closed/1019852/11 "2025-06-19T22:46:14Z")
Taking away federal holidays isn’t popular, no matter what the holiday is about. They’ll only do it when they have a suitable replacement, like Jefferson Davis’s birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-june-19-is-juneteenth-with-post-offices-banks-federal-offices-etc-closed/1019852/12 "2025-06-21T12:57:27Z")
Displaying a trophy taken from a defeated foe - power move! ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-june-19-is-juneteenth-with-post-offices-banks-federal-offices-etc-closed/1019852/13 "2025-06-21T14:10:50Z")
Chicago has a large Polish population, and celebrates Casimir Pulaski Day in early March. All county offices are closed on that day. One year I went to the county treasurer’s office to pay my property taxes, and had to go back the next day. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-june-19-is-juneteenth-with-post-offices-banks-federal-offices-etc-closed/1019852/14 "2025-06-21T14:17:44Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > > To be honest, I’m kind of surprised that this administration hasn’t moved to end this holiday (along with, perhaps, MLK Day). That would be consistent with their philosophy. > > Same. On the other hand, Trump _did_ post on Juneteenth, not to commemorate the holiday but to complain, “Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed. The workers don’t want it either! Soon we’ll end up having a holiday for every once working day of the year. It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-june-19-is-juneteenth-with-post-offices-banks-federal-offices-etc-closed/1019852/15 "2025-06-21T15:38:06Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Taking away federal holidays isn’t popular, no matter what the holiday is about. They’ll only do it when they have a suitable replacement, like Jefferson Davis’s birthday. In all seriousness, they’ll probably replace it with Columbus Day.