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Maybe if more business had the will, and the will to enact pro-business legislation with regard to unions, the unions might repair, gain genuine public support, and find their way back to productive legislation on behalf of the worker, rather than trying to run economies into the ground so that the workers, don't get any work.

I recently spoke to a person who has a sister in the post office. She was getting 16 weeks of paid vacation this year.

I work 51 weeks a year, and the buck stops at my desk.

I need unions as much as I need food poisoning.

I recently spoke to a person who has a sister in the post office. She was getting 16 weeks of paid vacation this year.

Are you sure she didn't say six weeks?

I checked both the OPM and U.S. Postal Service webpages. At 15 years' service, the leave accrual rate goes to eight hours per pay period, or 26 days a year. (Very generous.) Add 13 sick days.

I suppose one could add the 10 federal holidays, but we're still well short of 16 weeks. I don't know what the carryover maximum is. The Post Office may allow large carryovers, which (as you know) people tend to fold into their retirement planning.

It's a very generous leave system any way you slice it, but I don't know how this person could get to 16 weeks in regular annual leave. Unless she works for the French or German postal services, which is a different thing.