[159934] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Jan 29 12:11:35 2013
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:09:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <13302.1359477513@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- 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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