In a message dated 8/20/2000 3:01:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time, GenTips-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > They paid into a separate retirement plan for government employees > and would have received this retirement instead of Social Security. My father was a civilian employee for the Navy at that time and did not pay into social security. I'm sure the same was true of Postal. He never paid into any retirement and received his from the feds.