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Bonuses aren't used to "keep people".

So why are they getting bonuses?

With the exception of the Air Traffic Controllers I can’t imagine it is for performance.

I at least have not heard of any Government entities coming in under budget in my life time.

I think it would have made the news.

Here's a performance situation. Let's say you are postal manager and it's your job to set up a new line in an existing facility. It will, in the end, have about 100 employees working it (on various shifts, and I'm including the maintenance people who do all the repairs as it wears out). So, 100 people X 60,000 @ year, counting night differential, and that's $6 million bucks.

The job will take 3 months.

You get it done in 2 months, knocking a full month off the schedule. The work that line will be doing used to require 200 people, and now 100 people can do it, and you got it going a full month ahead of time.

The advantage you provided through astute management of the installation is 1/12 of $6 million, or $500,000.

USPS will probably give you a 2.5% bonus (if you get an outstanding rating) over basic salary.

That salary is probably about $110,000 (to do work like this), and your bonus will be $2,700.

Ain't a bad deal for the government!

At any given moment USPS probably has as many as 5,000 managers engaged in work like that somewhere.

They work their tails off to get a few more bucks.