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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.

Millions are dealing with freezing temperatures in the Midwest. A polar blast of freezing air from Canada is plunging into the U.S. today and tomorrow, potentially breaking dozens of daily record low temperatures from the Plains to the Northeast. Today, temperatures were in the teens below zero in areas of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota.        There's been an arrest in connection with pipe bombs placed at the Republican and Democratic National Committees headquarters the night before the January 6th Capitol riot. Multiple reports say a Virginia man has been taken into custody. This comes after a nearly five year investigation into the identity of the person who placed the bombs.        A classified briefing will be held today for lawmakers on the U.S. strikes on suspected Venezuelan narco-boats on Thursday. Navy Admiral Frank "Mitch" Bradley will no doubt be pressed about the multiple strikes on the same boat on September 2nd, despite there being survivors of the first strike. President Trump said he regards the operation as a justified attack, not one or two strikes.        The leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda will be hosted by President Trump today to sign a peace deal. The two African nations have been fighting for years. In June, the foreign ministers of each country signed a preliminary peace deal and an economic pact drawn up by the U.S. at the White House.        Luigi Mangione's pre-trial hearing is continuing in Manhattan today. Today mark's one year since the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson that Mangione is accused of. Mangione's lawyers are trying to get key evidence tossed from his upcoming murder trial.        A licensed private investigator now knows his punishment for trespassing at the home of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. Justin Fisher entered a 12-month diversion program in Leawood Municipal Court on Tuesday. Fisher was arrested September 15th after he gained access to Kelce's gated community in an effort to serve legal papers.       

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