From Postal Reporter reader,  RE: Mail Delivery on Sunday due to Religious Reasons?? (4/24/06) “postal deliveries have been moved from Saturdays to Sundays in Collegedale, Tenn., because many residents are Seventh-day Adventists.”

When my parents lived in Loma Linda, CA many years ago, I learned that mail delivery there was Sunday through Friday for the entire town.  Loma Linda University and its Medical Center, Seventh-Day Adventist institutions, are located there.  Loma Linda was one of four cities (five now?) where there are so many Adventists that mail is delivered on Sundays, not Saturdays, their day of worship.

For more than a century after the founding of our country, mail delivery was SEVEN days per week.  Our founding fathers did not observe the Sabbath!  About the time of World War 1, Sunday became a half-day of work.  By World War 2 Sunday work was eliminated.  Religious organizations lobbied for this change as a way to boost church attendance.

- DCC