Every day, tens of thousands of postal workers take to American streets to drop letters in mailboxes and packages on porches. Day after day after day. Every year, thousands of postal workers retire, joining the pension roles like their peers who spent their lives in other lines of government work. But unlike the other government pensions, postal retirement benefits are governed by different rules that can mean extra things current workers need to worry about when deciding to take a job at USPS.

Today, the postal service stands at a crossroads.

[Read the rest of the op-ed over at The Hill.]

 

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