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Your Local Post Office will be Closed to Celebrate Labor Day

 

Full Retail and Delivery Service will Resume on Tuesday

 

 

PROVIDENCE, RI -  Postal Service employees across the state will celebrate Labor Day as all Post Offices will be closed on Monday, September 4, 2023. There will be no delivery of mail on the 4th, with the exception of guaranteed overnight parcels. Full retail and delivery services will resume on Tuesday, September 5, 2023.

As we celebrate our nation’s labor force, if you’re considering a new career or looking for work visit www.usps.com/careers and you can search, by state, for available jobs near you. As the Postal Service’s Delivering for America Plan transforms USPS into the premier shipping provider in the nation, we need your help moving the nations mail and are currently hiring for positions in your area.

The government shutdown is now three weeks old and that means it is tied for the second-longest in U.S. history. Another vote in the Senate failed to end the shutdown yesterday. No votes are scheduled for today but Senate Republicans will be having lunch at the White House where President Trump is expected to thank them for keeping a unified front.        President Trump is getting the go-ahead to deploy National Guard troops in Portland, Oregon. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that presidential determinations are not reviewable by federal courts. Meanwhile in the nation's capital, DC's attorney general says the National Guard could be deployed there until at least next summer and President Trump is suggesting he might invoke the Insurrection Act to justify sending troops to San Francisco.        Vice President JD Vance is in Israel for a two-day visit. Vance's visit comes after Hamas on Monday night returned the body of another dead hostage to Israel. The remains of 15 more are still believed to be held by the Palestinian militant group inside Gaza.        Virginia Roberts Giuffre's [[ joo-FRAYs ]] posthumous memoir is out today. "Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice," details how she was groomed as a teenager as a victim of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and other men. Giuffre completed the book before her death by suicide in April of this year. She was 41 years old.        General Motors beat earnings expectations in the third quarter. The automaker raised its financial guidance today after revenue was down less than one percent from the same time last year at more than 48 and a half billion dollars. The company also lowered its predictions for the expected impact of tariffs.        The NBA regular season tips off with a doubleheader today. Houston faces the defending champion Thunder in Oklahoma City. The nightcap features a Golden State showdown between Luka Doncic [[ DON-chitch ]] and the Lakers against Steph Curry's Warriors from Los Angeles.       

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