KEN-
As a matter of full disclosure, I am posting my response as someone who has earned a portion of my pension benefits through the Massachusetts Teachers Retirement System. As with others who have earned benefits through similar systems and as a frequent reader of your posts, I am only partially surprised that you would target workers and beneficiaries instead of the policy-makers who knowingly left pension obligations underfunded. It is the Great and General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts which has chronically avoid the reckoning of pension obligations, not the workers.
i for one would move rates to where all these costs were covered.
It is just such an approach to pension funding that has placed the USPS in the massive difficulty it finds itself.
...just palin wrong...
is one of those typos that -- while easy to commit -- is illustrative. It can -- through the subconscious production of a name know to us all -- typify someone of a particular approach to others and life, in general. Or, to borrow your turn of phrase from another and now-locked thread, it shows you safe from "slavish adherence" when it comes to proofreading your own submissions.
You can choose to respond or not, but if not, please consider my closing question merely rhetorical. Do you feel compelled to throw grenades, or is it a matter of personal preference?
-jaymac