Comments on: Post Office Forced To Cut Saturday Delivery Due To GOP Sabotage

By: TotallyRandomName

TotallyRandomName — Sun, 05 May 2013 16:50:00 +0000

Nice try. Fail, Marv.

By: ralphkr

ralphkr — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:01:00 +0000

I am and was wide awake and I know both of those construction workers who got SS disability for a broken arm and the other with a broken leg in the 1960s. Admittedly, they did get their disability in an appeals court where I was because I had wheeled in a friend of ours (paralyzed from the waist down) to appeal being denied disability. She was denied because she was a woman and, to quote the judge, “she should marry someone who could support her or get a job as a secretary or receptionist where she would not be required to walk.” You are also mistaken about how one keeps a Federal disability because if you go to work at any type of job and reach 75% of your former full duty pay your disability retirement is cancelled unless you have reached normal retirement age. Anyone on a USPS disability can be called in to work at any time at any job the USPS deems them able to perform as determined by the USPS doctor and the paperwork in their file and I have seen more than one carrier who was no longer able to drive called in to answer phones or sweep floors. Depending upon how much they earn it may have no effect upon their disability check and just be bonus money.

By: onedonewong

onedonewong — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:06:00 +0000

Ralph you need to wake up…no one and I mean no one qualifies for SSI based on a broken arm or leg. They must be INcapable of doing any work, while federal disability is granted if you can’t do your present job which means that anyone wanting a fed disability qualifies.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:21:00 +0000

The post office is the best example of why government should not operate anything for profit. Let G.M. operate for profit not Uncle Sam

By: ralphkr

ralphkr — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 02:24:00 +0000

Well, onedungwrong, that is a very interesting theory. I am left wondering why on earth anyone would want to give up their USPS disability and switch to SSI since USPS disability pays as if the person had completed 30 years on the job and had reached normal retirement age while SSI pays far less. As far as qualifying for SSI vs. USPS I must say that I have seen that SSI qualification is a breeze compared to USPS disability. In the 1970s I knew 2 men who qualified for SS disability because one had broken a leg and the other a broken arm (and we all know that an injury such as that is permanent) and I know postal employees on disability who had to turn in tons of paper work, various doctor’s reports, and see the USPS doctor more than once before they qualified. One was a letter carrier who was now confined to a wheel chair and had a partially paralyzed right arm (hard to walk a route in a wheel chair) and it took him nearly a year to qualify for USPS disability.

By: onedonewong

onedonewong — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:26:00 +0000

Its PHONEY disability is the problem.95% of USPS emplyees on disability can’t qualify for SS disability its nothing but a CON

By: Fern Woodfork

Fern Woodfork — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:38:00 +0000

You Notice If It Help The 98% Of The People In America The GOP/Tea Party American Taliban Is Against It And They Will Try To Destroy It!!!

By: ralphkr

ralphkr — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 04:46:00 +0000

You have a point there, onedonewong, but you missed the real problem with retirement costs. It used to be that a postal clerk lived less than 5 years after retiring because of the extremely dusty working conditions while carriers averaged 15 years drawing retirement because of the better conditions working outside the office. Now the offices are mechanized and the air is much cleaner plus improved medical care all retired employees are surviving much longer. This could easily be cured by automatically cutting off all pensions upon reaching 80 or 20 years after initial retirement payment. Just think how much money SS and the few businesses that still have retirement plans could save by adopting this plan. I applaud your attitude that no one should be allowed to live too long.

By: onedonewong

onedonewong — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:56:00 +0000

The USPS problem is simple to fix ban the unions. There are more USPS on disability than the US Military some are into their 90′s and still drawing disability

By: Donald

Donald — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:55:00 +0000

isnt it conveneint to blame the UPS problems on republicans and an arcane bipartisan bill from seven years ago? has anyone heard of the internet? the postmaster is taking charge because no one in congress, including the beloved democrats, has the guts to address the union member impact of a logical, long overdue business decision