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  Anyone who has ever physically uprooted their family and made a move to a new location has earned their $10,000. If you haven't made a move like this, believe me, you haven't lived. Treat yourself. Your spouse will worship you for commanding such a large bonus. As far as having to itemize such an expense... just tell me you don't trust me, why ingrain practices that undermine your trust in me into the system itself? Are we doomed to micromanage the 99% because of the iniquities of the 1%? You are going to get the behavior you reward and if penny pinching is what you're looking for... pennies are all you'll ever have to play with.

  Amazed by the Lemmings Posted March 6, 2008 8:27 AM
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  By the way "THE POSTAL SYSTEM WOULD LIKE THE TAXPAYERS TO PROVIDE MORE TAX DOLLARS DUE TO ADDITIONAL COSTS, IF NOT STAMPS WILL GO UP". Well if they are supposed to run it like a business, I can see they don't know much about business. Maybe it's about time they privitatize the Postal System. If that happened, I can guarantee you one thing, the employees wouldn't be paid the huge salaries the ones now are being paid and they wouldn't receive the huge benifit packages e.g the great health package which most federal employees don't receive. Yeh Congress why not send more hard earned tax money and congratulate the Postal System for doing such a great for managing their budget???

  GovExec.com reader Posted May 9, 2005 8:07 AM
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  If the US Government wants to save money on this kind of thing, then they should require the individual to submit their expenses for the move (or whatever), and then allow the individual to KEEP at least 50 percent of the alloted money that was NOT used. As it is now, we have no incentive to save money on moves, housing, whatever, and we DON'T!! The result is that it is probably costing the government at least twice as much as it would if the individual was allowed to keep some of the money that was saved.

  GovExec.com reader Posted May 6, 2005 8:27 AM
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  The Senator's letter makes the issue of lump sum payments interesting. The big push in the Governmentwide Relocation Advisory Board has been to convert everything possible to a lump sum payment. Will this send a message that this is not the way to go and the GSA Office of Governmentwide Policy needs to listen to the people who hold the purse strings or will this be another case of "Senator, we heard you, please go away." Maybe Senator Grassley should check and see what other agencies use the lump sum payments - even if they did not report the payments in the recent Budget Data Request to OMB. Claiming the data is not available is a very convenient way of keeping you payments and policies (or lack of policies) under raps.

  Les Oden Posted May 6, 2005 7:09 AM
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  It is pretty sad when they can pay these kinds of bonuses, but can't pay mileage to employees who use their own Private Vehicles to conduct postsal business, nor afford to pay a measley clothing allowance so their employees can purchase postal uniforms to better represent the postal service. They talk like it is a business, but the fact remains to many of the higher ups, it means nothing but a fat retirement and pay checks while awaiting that retirement. If Grassley wants to really complain about the waste in the postal service, he should really dig into their operation.

  GovExec.com reader Posted May 5, 2005 8:07 PM