Re: Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land

[Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu>

> What's different about the Post Office is that they're required to pre-fund
> for 75 years. Yes, you read that right - they need to pay in *now* for
> the pension fund of mail carriers who won't even be born for another
> decade.

And if that had not been passed (by a MUMBLE Congress), then instead of being
$6B in the red, they'd be about $1.5B in the black.

So let us not hang the need to "save" USPS on Congress, when they caused the
problem in the first place.

And let's move this thread to nanog-politics, k?

Cheers,
-- jra
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