Boxing Day

[pne]

When is Boxing Day this year?

I used to think that "Boxing Day" = "26 December", but it seems that at least originally, Boxing Day was "the first weekday after Christmas", when service workers received Christmas-boxes—which makes sense, since the milkman, postman, etc. would typically not work on a Sunday (would they?).

So would Boxing Day be on 27 December this year?

Comments

[tungol.livejournal.com]

Here in Canada, I've never heard "Boxing Day" used for anything other than Dec. 26, for which it is regularly used.