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I'm not going to disagree with you on the pre-funding issue, but there were a lot of days when I sent 25 or more employees to the "Standby Room" because we had no mail to work. Putting them in Standby got them off our hourly productivity rolls - and we could meet our throughput quota. Yes, they got paid in Standby. We advised employees to bring books and magazines to work. No TV, but they had access to computers with internet. Tough work, huh?



In the private sector most would be sent home or paid till noon. The same people criticising the ten year plan criticize the private sector for underfunding retirement liabilities. My guess is that the ten year plan is an incentive to change the organizational culture of the USPS.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. H. L. Mencken