{"id":561665,"date":"2025-11-10T15:42:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/561665\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T15:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:42:16","slug":"are-banks-post-offices-open-on-veterans-day-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/561665\/","title":{"rendered":"Are banks, post offices open on Veterans Day? What to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/84070344007-20250606-vpc-us-marks-81st-dday-thumb-getty-00-00-00-00-still-004.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>US veterans mark 81 years since D-Day in France<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After 81 years, we&#8217;re still free.&#8221; US veterans gathered in France to mark 81 years since D-Day, the amphibious Allied assault on Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/shopping\/2025\/11\/04\/veterans-day-freebies-and-discounts\/87085152007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/shopping\/2025\/11\/04\/veterans-day-freebies-and-discounts\/87085152007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Veterans Day<\/a> is on Tuesday, Nov. 11, and while restaurants, grocery stores, and retail stores will largely remain open on the day, banks and post offices will not.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/veterans-day\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/veterans-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs<\/a>, the celebration of Veterans Day, a federal holiday, dates back to Nov. 11, 1918, when &#8220;temporary cessation of hostilities,&#8221; or an armistice, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For that reason, November 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of &#8216;the war to end all wars,'&#8221; according to the government agency&#8217;s website. Veterans Day continues to be observed on Nov. 11, regardless of what day of the week on which it falls.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the day is to be a &#8220;celebration to honor America&#8217;s veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good,&#8221; the Department of Veterans Affairs says on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what to know about banks, post offices and shipping services, and whether or not they&#8217;ll be open on Veterans Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">Veterans Day deals: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/shopping\/2025\/11\/04\/veterans-day-freebies-and-discounts\/87085152007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don&#8217;t miss these top freebies and discounts offered for Veterans Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is the post office open on Veterans Day? Will mail be delivered?<\/p>\n<p>No, post offices will be closed on Veterans Day, and mail will not be delivered because it is a federal holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Are banks open on Veterans Day?<\/p>\n<p>Branches of Bank of America, Truist, PNC, Capital One, Wells Fargo, CitiBank, JPMorgan Chase, and other banks will be closed on Tuesday, Nov. 11 in honor of Veterans Day.<\/p>\n<p>Are shipping services, like UPS and FedEx, open on Veterans Day?<\/p>\n<p>UPS pickup and delivery services will be available on Tuesday, Nov. 11, however UPS SurePost and UPS Mail Innovations deliveries will require one additional business days&#8217; time in transit due to the USPS federal holiday. UPS Store locations will also be open.<\/p>\n<p>FedEx pickup and delivery services will also be available on Tuesday, and FedEx Office locations will also be open.<\/p>\n<p>Gabe Hauari is a national trending news reporter at USA TODAY. You can follow him on X\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GabeHauari\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@GabeHauari<\/a>\u00a0or email him at Gdhauari@gannett.com.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US veterans mark 81 years since D-Day in France &#8220;After 81 years, we&#8217;re still free.&#8221; US veterans gathered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[6207,5176,3670,56644,13991,3427,56643,13180,21593,14042,3590,21590,920,21581,1824,2837,125804,2406,21595,29729,21588,21596,125802,5777,5786,6584,5775,5785,5488,3577,3120,5179,6591,5496,21589,21582,21587,14835,1426,5776,1017,21591,5181,7922,49,21580,978,659,52239,179101],"class_list":["post-561665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-and","tag-bank","tag-bank-and-credit-union-branches","tag-bank-of-america","tag-banking","tag-branches","tag-capital","tag-capital-one","tag-credit","tag-day","tag-delivery","tag-events","tag-fedex","tag-germany","tag-holiday","tag-holiday-marketplace-hub","tag-holidays","tag-holidays-u0026-seasonal-events","tag-hub","tag-mail","tag-mail-u0026-package-delivery","tag-marketplace","tag-modular","tag-modular-story","tag-negative","tag-network","tag-network-trending","tag-neutral","tag-of","tag-one","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-overall-neutral","tag-package","tag-postal","tag-seasonal","tag-service","tag-story","tag-trending","tag-u-s","tag-u-s-postal-service","tag-u0026","tag-union","tag-united-states","tag-ups","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-day"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}