Edited by author 11-07-2009 02:36 PM
hi fellow newly retirees, I have a question , how long do you think it takes to start feeling normal after leaving the P.O.? 1 month? 2 months, 3 months , 4 ? 5 ? 6 ? a year? never?

One day for each year is working for me.

/m41847 give it a few weeks, a few months perhaps. retiring is listed as one of the big stressful events of your lifetime. but it need not be a Negative. pamper yourself. get a foot massage. spend time with your family and friends, especially with the Holidays coming up. be happy! enjoy your life. you only get one, unless you are Hindi.

been retired one year the end of this month. I only come on here to see if their is ever any money (from the so called grievance last year on the VERA).

After about 2 months you begin to start thinking ahead again.

I travel the country so life is good. Yep full time rv lifestyle. Home is where you park it :)

Even after one year I still have not forgotten how crappy I was treated but just like with a divorce or a death, after time the memory fades and does not seem so bad anymore.

To 41845, Bite Me! I do not even know who Nickle is, other than reading his stupid posts! It is not me! Get it?????????

The person that retired with me received their form 50 today showing they are retired. What was interesting was the remark at the bottom.

this is a direct quote;

"OPM AUTHORITY 2008-072 DURATION JULY 31, 2008 THRU SEPTMEMBER 30, 2010"

Yes September is spelled wrong!

so for anyone who thinks the early outs are over, there could be many more before September 30, 2010.

here is hoping that who ever wants to go will be given more money and will get to go!

So here's what I've heard....the next buyout will be $1000.00 for each year of service. Anyone else heard this rumor?

postal rebel /m41854 -- "what I've heard" is always worthless. Your rumor is legally impossible.

By law the maximum amount the USPS is allowed to offer is 25K. This has been on the books for years. Anything other than this will literally take an act of congress with OPM agreeing.

this was in the Morning Report on nov. 5
 
by Rebecca Neal
Nov. 4, 2009
Legislators are considering allowing federal employees to deposit the cash value of their unused sick leave and vacation time into their Thrift Savings Plan accounts.
The Internal Revenue Service allows private sector employees to do the same with their 401(k) plans for unused leave that cannot be rolled over. TSP participants can’t do that, however, unless Congress modifies the Federal Employees Retirement System Act, the bill that created the Thrift Savings Plan.
Several TSP improvements, such as automatically enrolling new federal employees in the plan, were included in a tobacco bill Obama signed in June. Chairman Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., said at a Nov. 3 House hearing that it was an oversight to have left out of those legislative improvements a measure that would enable federal employees to deposit their unused leave cash equivalents into their TSP accounts.“Credits for unused sick leave is a great idea … shame on us for not anticipating that and putting it in our bill,” Lynch said, adding that he wants to move on the idea soon.

Sis, does that mean if a person has a year of sick leave that they would get a years pay (about 53K for me) put into their TSP?

/m41858, NO NO NO

never gonna happen

Postalvet: Thanks for posting this info.

"OPM AUTHORITY 2008-072 DURATION JULY 31, 2008 THRU SEPTMEMBER 30, 2010"


Now it is interesting and disappointing how postal management is "managing" this authority. think about this...the USPS is losing billions of dollars a year, the biggest drain or cost is labor costs. We replace the senior employees with lower paid employees when and if they are replaced. Wouldn't it make business sense to open up the VERA every month until the authority expires? So what if only 300 to 500 take it every month....the USPS would still save lots of $$$$. With winter around the corner more and more carriers will take a closer look at it. EAS will leave as well....the pay increases are basically gone unless your a VP the Postmasters are boycotting the VOE so all is not well in EAS land. Which is a good thing if you want to replqace them for a third less cost.

Hopefully our "leaders" have enough knowledge to use this uthority before it expires.

/m41861 Our "leaders" have no brains, never mind knowledge.