Your letter carrier may get two pensions, but what’s that to you? Why such hatred and envy? BTW, your letter carrier will not be eligible for Social Security because it sounds like all of his working life is federal time or military time. If for some reason he would ever go back to work after postal retirement and earn forty quarters of Social Security coverage, which would take ten years of steady work to accumulate, he would find his Social Security check subject to the Government Pension Offset and reduced by sixty percent, in certain cases to zero, based on his income. This is the situation that federal and postal retirees face, many of us don’t get two retirement checks, especially those covered by the old Civil Service Retirement System. In contrast, many private workers have both a retirement check from their company and Social Security.
I’m not quite sure where you pick up hatred or envy. I thought that it was kind of clever.
I thought that if he did it, others might do it as well, which could boost the percentage of government employees who are ex-military.
The details you add are interesting—you can’t get much by the government.