I left two years ago and it has been wonderful. The one thing that I do "miss" is the idioticy of what were my fellow employees. Notice that I do not use the word "workers". They were usually good for a laugh or two. I always made sure that I stayed far, far away of the one's that I knew were trouble. Which means that I only had contact with 3 or 4 people, the whole time I worked. You have to also understand that most of the people that I socialized with were not postal workers. As to what to do with your time. I finished all the half done projects and the repairs that were deemed "that it'll get us by for awhile". Life is calmer, the homestead is not on the verge of falling apart and now my spouse and I are doing the traveling we wanted to do. Good Luck and laugh out loud the first time that you don't have to ask permission to be sick, take time off or wait for someone to complain about how you offend, harassed or "dissed" them.