The Postal Service has announced plans to go on an indefinite hiatus following its final 2024 tour date later this week.

The Seattle band has been on a reunion tour with Death Cab for Cutie as co-headliners since the summer of 2023, with dates extended through September 2024 due to high demand. The tour was a celebration of the 20th anniversaries of Postal Service’s “Give Up” and Death Cab’s “Transatlanticism,” with both albums performed in their entirety.

The Postal Service ‘s final show will take place this Saturday at Washington, D.C.’s HFStival, which will also feature performances from Bush, Garbage, Jimmy Eat World, Girl Talk and more.

“As we conclude the Transatlanticism / Give Up Tour, I want everyone to know that performing these two albums live has been one of the most incredible experiences and honors of my whole life,” said Postal Service frontman Ben Gibbard in a statement. “On behalf of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service; Thank you all so much for coming out and singing along. We’ll see you all again somewhere down the line.”

Gibbard, of course, is a member of both bands and formed The Postal Service to release its debut and only album “Give Up” in February 2003. The core group of The Postal Service included Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello, with Lewis providing vocals and later becoming a full-time member. “Give Up” was created by the artists sending music and instrumentals through the mail.

Discussions about a second album arose after the release of “Give Up,” and while it never happened, the band continued to be active with a reunion tour in 2013. That year, Gibbard said that their Lollapalooza after-show would be their last performance, and it wasn’t until 2020 that the group put out a new project, the live album “Everything Will Change.”

Just last month, Gibbard reiterated that a new Postal Service album is unlikely to ever be released. “I believe the main reason that a second Postal Service record has never been made – and will never be made – the time commitments that Death Cab ended up taking, which really began with ‘Transatlanticism’, haven’t really ever let up,” he told NME . “There’s just not enough time, let alone creative energy flowing, to make a suitable follow-up [to ‘Give Up’]. I think anything that we would try to create at this point would be thoroughly disappointing.”