August 16, 2013-Friday-My original post on July 28, 2012 concerning the local post offices procedures on lowering or raising the American flag on special dates, with a follow-up posting on July 4, 2013 on why the American flag was at half-staff that day. The main postal installation in this saga...North Beach Carrier Annex located at 2200 Powell Street.
The latest updates:
Saturday-July 6, 2013
Flag is still at half-staff.
Tuesday-July 9, 2013
Saturday-July 13, 2013
Sunday-July 28, 2013
Wednesday-August 7, 2013
The American flag is still at half-staff.
Today, Friday-August 16, 2013
The American flag is finally back at full staff. Either someone at the post office realized the mistake, someone in upper management called, someone in the neighborhood informed the post office of the mistake or the post office repaired the rope pulley!
No matter what's the reasoning behind the correction of raising the flag back to full mast---it should not had taken so long to correct the mistake. If my calculation is correct, the last known date the American flag was to be lowered to half-staff would be for Memorial Day May 27, 2013...give or take of almost 82 days the American flag been flown at half-staff by mistake. The postal service been known to misdelivery a piece of mail or even lose a piece of mail---now I can add forgetting correct flag etiquette!
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