Originally Posted by grandma Janice
Originally Posted by mzsooz
My daughter works for the encoding center and told me about this awhile back. Her center just got rid off 400 people. Part of the problem is people retiring. You can retire after 20 years from the postal service so there are people retiring in their 40's and pulling retirement checks for 30 and 40 years. They have to make a change somewhere to meet this demand. They want to raise the price of stamps and the public goes bonkers when they do that so this is the alternative. And yes, technology is hugely responsible. I always feel bad when I choose to go "paperless". Helps the environment but costs jobs. What to do?
unless things have changed, years of service and age, must add up to 55 to retire. DH had 30 years in.
That may well be. She did not tell me that part. She has a boss that first retired as a CPA and then went to work at the postal service. In 3 years he will retire from there with 20 years of service. Pretty sad that people have to get double retirements to be able to make it after they retire. I don't think my DH will ever be able to retire :(