KY post offices are closed Thursday. Here are options for mail services
The United States Postal Service will be closed Thursday for Juneteenth, the U.S.’ newest federal holiday.
Mail delivery, caller service and post office box services will not operate in Kentucky or nationwide.
The post office operations will be open for regularly scheduled hours on Wednesday and Friday.
Customers can still purchase stamps, mail packages, or ship urgent letters or packages with the self-service kiosks available at select post offices, according to USPS.
The ATM-like kiosk accepts credit or debit cards only and can handle most postal transactions, such as weighing packages and dispensing postage for Priority Express, Priority, First-Class and Parcel Post mail.
Self-service kiosks are accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Juneteenth marks the events that unfolded two months after Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender effectively ended the U.S. Civil War in April 1865. On June 19, Union soldiers came to Galveston, Texas, to share the news of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
Juneteenth was approved as a federal holiday in June 2021.
