Other than Special Delivery which was always delivered seven days a week.
In the past few years we’ve had Sunday deliveries here just before Christmas, presumably to get through the Christmas “surge”. But I don’t think Sunday deliveries have ever been part of the “normal” routine.
I don’t know about Sunday. But my cousin lives on an Indian reservation, where his job is delivering the mail.
And on the reservation, mail IS delivered on Columbus Day. They make sure to have some to deliver.
samclem
November 28, 2005, 12:25am
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Sunday delivery in the week or two before Christmas was rather common in the US in the 1950’s. I say this from memory.
ltfire
November 28, 2005, 12:44am
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I remember that too. I also remember having it delivered twice a day, by the same guy, on foot, from the other direction.
IIRC, it was Jimmy Carter who put an end to Sunday mail deliveries. Prior to the 1950s, it was common to have mail delivered three times a day.
Not Carter.
http://hnn.us/roundup/comments/13105.html
E.J. Dionne, in the Washington Post, in the course of a review of Noah Feldman’s America’s Church-State Problem – And What We Should Do About It (7-10-05):
… In his brisk, balanced history of America’s debates about God’s public role, Feldman pokes one hole after another in the assumptions of activists on all sides of today’s religious wars. Contemporary religious conservatives seem to think that Christian rules and assumptions pervaded everything about the early republic. They probably don’t know (I didn’t until I read Feldman) that when the Post Office was established Congress “legislated for seven-day mail delivery without anyone initially raising the problem of Sabbath violation.” It was not until 1828, “with national religious consciousness growing,” that religious leaders began complaining that post offices, “which doubled as gathering places in small towns, were diverting the faithful from attending church on Sunday.” The debate went on for 84 years. Sunday delivery was finally stopped in 1912.
