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In the United States , a postal holiday is a Federal holiday recognized by the United States Postal Service , during which no regular mail is delivered, however Priority Mail Express items will still be delivered as that service functions year round. While it is theoretically possible to be successful in filing for, and obtaining, SKKService Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS or CSRS without a compelling medical report, and to base such an application merely upon medical records, diagnostic test results, and operative reports; nevertheless, it increases the likelihood and chances of a case if one has garnered the support of a medical doctor.
Other worker-related expenses, such as workers’ compensation, fluctuate from year to year based on “changes in actuarial assumptions, such as interest and inflation rates, and employee and retiree demographics,” as the USPS said in its 2019 annual report.

To minimize the risk to customers and employees, USPS management has implemented social distancing protocols at post offices and changed work practices to limit contact when postal employees receive outgoing packages from customers and when they get signatures after making deliveries.
If you have a post office like ours with a small lobby, you can see how the mail coming in could easily spread the disease.” While FedEx and UPS have new guidelines that prohibit customers from touching digital package scanners, Jim said, his station was still allowing customers to sign for packages and certified mail.
If the Federal or Postal employee has already been separated from Federal service close to, or for almost, a year, then the Disability Retirement applicant has no choice but to proceed with the Hearing at the Merit Systems Protection Board, because the Statute of Limitations of filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits will have passed, and therefore a dismissal and refilling would be precluded.

We are urgently working to make sure all our employees have what they need to stay safe and healthy.” He added that the USPS had rolled out a series of informational videos and talks about hand washing and social distancing, and that it was making masks and gloves available to employees who asked for them.
And, indeed, this is precisely what the Merit Systems Protection Board decided in the case of Luzi v. Office of Personnel Management, 106 M.S.P.R. 160 (2007), where the Merit Systems Protection Board found that a disability retirement appeal following a denial of an appellant’s second application for disability retirement benefits was not barred by res judicata arising from a prior Board decision, where the second application was based on a different time period than was addressed in the original appeal and was based on evidence that could not have been raised in the prior appeal.

Finally, there is the intersection between the medical condition, and the positional duties one is slotted in. The Reader will probably notice that the bridge between the medical condition and the job has been somewhat discussed already, and that is because, as stated before, Federal Disability Retirement cannot be discussed by virtue of the medical condition in a vacuum; it always encapsulates two interconnecting paradigms involving the medical condition and the essential elements of one’s positional requirements.
What’s more, private-sector employers aren’t required to advance-fund their retiree medical costs because they can curtail these at any time — and, in fact, the largest share of employers have done so, and only provide benefits for a grandfathered group, or no one at all — but for political reasons (as explained at the Tax Foundation ), it is essentially not possible for the USPS to do likewise, absent Congressional action.

However, in comparison to Social Security Disability, Federal Disability Retirement allows the Federal or Postal worker to earn a greater amount of earned income from a private-sector job, without endangering the Federal Disability Retirement annuity one fought so long and hard to get.