Does the USPS deliver mail on Thanksgiving, Black Friday? ... Postal Service recognizes 12 federal holidays throughout the year, according to its calendar, which can be found on the USPS website.

USPS heads into busy holiday shipping season with fewer workers, better technology 02:13. ... It comes as fewer shoppers camp out overnight to catch a Black Friday deal they could snag online.

That stoppage will only last one day however, as mail delivery and other postal services will resume on Friday, Nov. 24, according to the USPS website.

USPS zones are the classifications that the agency uses to define how far a parcel has to travel. Zone 1 is anything within 50 miles, while Zone 9, the highest, is anything over 1,801 miles.

Are you craving a white Christmas, pining for a red-nosed reindeer – all before a Black Friday? So is the U.S. Postal Service, which is opening its annual Operation Santa letter adoptions ...