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From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
What's different about the Post Office is that they're required to pre-fund for 75 years. Yes, you read that right - they need to pay in *now* for the pension fund of mail carriers who won't even be born for another decade.
And if that had not been passed (by a MUMBLE Congress), then instead of being $6B in the red, they'd be about $1.5B in the black. So let us not hang the need to "save" USPS on Congress, when they caused the problem in the first place. And let's move this thread to nanog-politics, k? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274