Projected USPS Pension Surplus Shrinks

Projected Postal Service Pension Surplus Shrinks as Rates Fall: The projected excess in the Federal Employees Retirement System for benefits covering about 471,000 current postal employees shrank to $2.6 billion from $10.9 billion a year earlier, John Berry, director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, said in an Oct. 30 letter to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe.