DANNO-50  06-18-2013
12:02 AM ET (US)
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Opie,46940, are you our financial guru or are you our LIFE COACH?? Why don't YOU quit and make room for someone that needs the job more than YOU? The sounds of silence from you is DEAFENING.
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Opie 06-17-2013
08:23 PM ET (US)
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Don't care.
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Crewp 06-17-2013
06:36 PM ET (US)
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I was going to retire, but after reading what opie said, I've decided to stay five more years. Put that in your pipe and smoke it opie !
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ray k 06-17-2013
05:44 PM ET (US)
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When and why someone decides to retire is a personal decision. Everyone has to navigate their own way through the system. Unsolicited opinions on how a person should conduct their private business are unwanted, unwarranted, and inherently stupid. Take care of your own situation and don't cry and whine that somehow someone is obligated to be your benefactor.
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RIKSNY 06-17-2013
05:20 PM ET (US)
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To say someone should get out of the way and make room for a younger person is ageist.
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mulligan2 06-17-2013
04:43 PM ET (US)
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Getting out of the way is much different than getting out. If you are in the way by all means, leave. If you are pulling your load and have goals to meet by all means stay in harness to meet your goals. Some need only $25K to live. Others may need more than $100K to feel retired. Giving up a $25.00 job that you have earned to someone else and taking a $10.00 job remember that someone else could have been counting on that $10.00 job.
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in with the incrowd 06-17-2013
04:26 PM ET (US)
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Your suggestion that veteran employees should retire so younger employees who need the job can continue their employment is absurd. You would setup postal need panels to determine who should continue their employment.Bad idea...
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Opie 06-17-2013
03:35 PM ET (US)
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My point about carriers ELIGIBLE to retire and WHO CAN (don't have obligations that REQUIRE continued USPS employment) SHOULD, in my opinion.
I understand obligations and responsibilities that just compel continued employment---I get that! But those who can, get out of the way PLEASE!
Today's environment is different for employment with USPS. Simply do NOT need as many folks. The public does not need us as badly as times gone by. Just a fact.
With that just search your heart and say, if you can, "I will just step aside and let someone who REALLY needs this job have it." I realize a few will, most won't but put the idea out there.
I got out of the way a little over 3 years ago so I have no skin in the game now but I do try to follow the happenings of the USPS today after spending 27 years there.
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retire2011 06-17-2013
03:27 PM ET (US)
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Got out as soon as I was eligible. It was my PLAN from day 1. Mortgage, kids college and bills included. Mission accomplished.
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2tired2work 06-17-2013
02:59 PM ET (US)
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No early outs......
I'm starting to believe that these nasty rumors being put out by our NALC leaders is designed to keep carriers from retiring, hoping they'll stick around a little longer for that carrot on a stick, keeping the membership numbers up.
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Jarhead7579 06-17-2013
07:15 AM ET (US)
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Love the people on my route, don't have a problem with dogs or irate customers. My route is
long and pretty heavy but it keeps me in shape. (Round is a shape; RIGHT?) LOL. Had a master
plan about being a meter reader but NEPOTISM came into the equation; so that fell through. I
am still on the list for Meter reader so who knows, might get a call somewhere else. Just leave
me alone and let me deliver the mail and I will be fine. Would like to hit LOTTO though.
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x-afcs op 06-16-2013
10:32 PM ET (US)
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It's really about choices. You don't HAVE TO live in New York, pay a mortgage, support adult children, etc... You could choose to retire and live within your means, or you can keep working. Life is short. No one knows how long they will be around. We all must make, and live with, our own choices. Me, I'm out @ 56, (got 30) or the next VERA, whichever comes first.
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Jarhead7579 06-16-2013
09:59 PM ET (US)
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Amen to all// Just because you are eligible to retire.. Doesn't mean you CAN retire.. I am eligible
to retire but CAN'T.. I have 4 years left on a mortgage and am helping my kids out with their student
loans for college.. Life gets in the way sometimes.. Lost my Mom, Sister & Dad in the past 12 years,
had prostate cancer, 2 hernia operations and multiple skin cancer procedures so that's the reason I
only have 450 hrs of sick leave with 30 years in. Life on Long Island is expensive and even with the
Overtime that I get it's not like I'm living like a king. It's enough to pay the mortgage after all
the deductions but not much else. It's like that Postal employees are set for life when they retire.
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postalvet 06-16-2013
09:20 PM ET (US)
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/m46923 I know two people one hired in 1966 and one hired in 1970 both in their mid 60's. they have no intention of retiring any time soon because they enjoy what they are doing. one evens works tour one.
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leebren 06-16-2013
09:17 PM ET (US)
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Wow opie.When I started we respected the senior carriers, we didn't think they should step aside so we could rise in the ranks. How arrogant.
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Cali to Colo 06-16-2013
09:17 PM ET (US)
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One thing Opie said is "others just hung on because they could". Well, o.k. Some just don't have much of interest outside of work and retirement isn't a huge draw for them.
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