[Lancey Howard]

It was congress forcing the postal unions to pay for their own pension fund that done ‘em in.

[Fledermaus]

Yes, what a tragedy. God forbid they don’t get unlimited taxpayer funds for their future lifestyles! /s

[muawiyah]

It was Congress imagining they could slip in a tax on postage ~ to balance the budget.

You see how that worked out!

BTW, postal employees are fully funded ~ my own retirement is so terribly paid up I'd have to live to be about 200 years of age to begin any sort of subsidized lifestyle. Same with all the others ~ non-postal federal employees, and that'd include such free riders as the entire Supreme Court, the Senior Executive Service, the Congress and others are NOT fully funded.