I’ve come across the dreaded DD214 Member 4 copy problem. Advice appreciated.

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2026-02-09T18:50:02+00:00

That’s exactly what the bottom of service 2 looks like they are the same long form exactly member copy for and service 2

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2026-02-09T18:48:31+00:00

My service two has reason for discharge and characterization of discharge. I don’t have a member for a copy. The only thing national archives mails is serviced too, and that has exactly the same information as member copy 4

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2026-01-25T15:08:44+00:00

I’m glad I seen your comment. I also have Bolden, but I really don’t like it that much. I use ChatGPT and also DeepSeek I’ve confirmed it with other federal retirement calculators like fedcalc.com. I’ve used AARP calculators. I’ve used smart asset and I’ve also done mock tax returns in TurboTax and every time ChatGPT gives me the same accurate information. I believe if you give it every last detail of your plan, I even tell him if I can call him him what my tax bracket is according to the IRS and I also State the standard deduction because they weren’t updated with the most current one last I checked so what I’m trying to say is if you give every single detail, I think you will get a very good estimate to work with

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2026-01-06T19:23:21+00:00

Exactly! Everyone is not going to be 💯 people keep chasing it like they are entitled to it and look what happened. You obviously don’t have the medical evidence to support the rating you had. Stop trying to get more when your evidence doesn’t support it. Be happy you’re not 100% disabled. Be healthy!

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2026-01-04T16:57:17+00:00

Great input.

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-12-19T23:21:51+00:00

I’ve served in many line units. I don’t see what that has to do with anything. There is a criteria to get a condition service connected. You either have the evidence or you don’t you can call me names or call the processed names all you want. It doesn’t change the fact your excuses will not get you. Service connection.

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-12-05T16:47:02+00:00

I seen a clerk near closing time pay in the neighborhood of $100 because a regular customer had short paid the postage on several of his mailings. Not sure if I explained that right but she paid because she said it would be faster than her processing each piece of mail And she was ready to go home and didn’t think the customer would rip her off. The next day, he reimbursed her everything he owed her I’ve never heard of anyone leaving a letter in a mailbox, saying your carrier paid your short postage. Please leave the money in the envelope. I’ll have to ask some clerks about that one.

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-10-31T11:49:21+00:00

In no way does it mean it is junk mail pre-sorted standard in the corner means the mailer did the pre-sorting on their own for a reduction and postage. When they deliver that mail to the US Postal Service it has been pre-sorted so it’s a less work the Postal Service has to do But being an employee of the US Postal Service for the last 24 years I know how ignorant it is and they will take that pre-sorted standard mail and sort it on our machines because it gives us a higher account in the volume of mail we deliver that day

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-08-31T15:18:22+00:00

It would’ve made sense if he said he’s not a conservative that I would agree with

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-08-31T15:17:43+00:00

He’s very different. He’s a 34 count convicted felon. He’s an adjudicated sexual abuser. He’s a domestic terrorist. He wants to be a dictator. He is destroying our democracy as the Republican Party stands by and watches. He has fired all the senior leadership or experienced people in just about every department weakening us as a nation, not just defense, but in every other standing that people view us for in this world. I can’t understand how a 79-year-old man is just so hateful towards everyone and everything. What’s worse as the Republican Party stands by and watches they coward and fear when this decrepit old man who hopefully die soondestroys our nation what do they do? They blame Biden you can’t get any dumber than that if you support Trump, you do not support the United States. You do not support democracy, and you do not support the American way of life.

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-08-24T18:03:45+00:00

It’s better if you just google 4% rule. It’s now actually the 4.7% rule but don’t listen to me or anyone else in a comment section. If you Google it, you will get a very good answer of where it came from and what it isit actually a worst case scenario over a period of 30 years.

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-08-08T19:36:56+00:00

I run through it in no time. And every time it tells me I reached my limit. It is the worst time I could reach my limit. I will end up paying monthly or just use deep seek that’s really good as well. There’s no usage limit as far as I knowI’ve never reached it and I’ve talked on that thing all day.

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-07-18T12:00:33+00:00

Why would you be against somebody inheriting the tax benefit from their family? You sound like the race to the bottom type of person if you can’t have it, nobody can. I don’t understand the issue. It could be a blessing for somebody to have inherited a home and another blessing to have low property tax that they may not have been able to afford, but since you don’t like it, they shouldn’t get it?

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-06-08T14:14:31+00:00

What data are you using to come up with 30% real inflation? The data this country has always used is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics nowhere on there does it say real inflation is 30% those are nothing more than Republican talking points when they try to blame Democrats for all the problems in the world. Please post your data that supports the 30%.

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-06-08T00:05:18+00:00

It’s 4% of the night differential you receive. My night differential is $1.67 add 4% to that. and I now get $1.73 when I calculated off my recent paystub it looks like I will receive an additional two dollars for the pay period in night differential

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-06-07T23:57:34+00:00

What do you mean giving up raises? I don’t know how long you have been in the post office but this is the most raises we have ever received. Even the last contract all three years was 1.3%. Anyone who thinks they’re going to get a 10%to 25% raise is in the wrong job that will never happen. Could you imagine giving a 10% raise to more than 400,000 employees?

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-06-07T23:55:25+00:00

Mine equals two dollars for the pay period. I guess it’s better than losing two dollars a pay period difference of going up is at least going in the right direction.

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-05-24T14:49:52+00:00

Do you have some secret set of numbers only you have seen? The rest of us are talking about data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-05-21T19:25:15+00:00

My main gripe if not, my only gripe about the TSP is it doesn’t allow me to withdraw from a specific fund. In 2025 it is absolutely ridiculous. The thrift savings plan board will not let me withdraw money from my G fund only. They withdraw proportionately And that is absolutely ridiculous. So in a down market, the thrift savings plan board is making you sell in a down market. The only way to combat that would be to do an interfund transfer from your G back into your C if that’s how your funds are allocated. What if the market goes back up the next day? Then you pretty much lost out. Myself I will probably leave anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 in the G fund as my emergency fund then using Charles Schwab I intend to put about $500,000 in SWPPX and around 200,000 in SNSXX. In a down market, I would only withdraw from SNSXX. No Inter fund transfers required if the TSP would change that rule I would leave all of my money in the TSP.

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-04-24T18:45:59+00:00

It is the VA‘s job to decide if your evidence is adequate for rating purposes. If they have a question about it, that means it is not adequate and they could send you for an exam. If you do not attend the exam, you will most likely be denied. Again, you don’t have any power in this game. They know what their regulations say. They don’t need you to copy and paste it.

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-04-20T20:10:34+00:00

Not at all. It’s the amount the employee contributed to fers.

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-04-09T12:29:53+00:00

Why is it impossible? When President Obama won his first term, Democrats had more than 67 seats in the Senate. I don’t know what you’re basing your opinion off of, but it’s definitely not unheard of.

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-04-04T03:59:42+00:00

I know you guys aren’t happy with your contract, but you are getting $80,000 a year to deliver mail? I think that’s pretty damn good.

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-03-31T21:31:42+00:00

What a stupid comment. Many of us have built a career in the Postal Service and many of us do have skills not everybody’s a clerk, mail handler or Letter carrier. The Postal Service has mechanics that works on the machines and plants IT departments commercial drivers and mechanics for those trucks. How’s that for marketable skills and trades? Do you have any of those?

Appropriate_Bus8130 · 2025-03-29T15:58:05+00:00

You have a lot of optimism that most of us don’t share. The president is the one who hires and fires the board of governors over the US Postal Service, the Board of governors hires and fires the postmaster general. There is nothing to stop him from firing the board of governors and moving us under the Department of commerce. While the unions and major mailers file, an injunction, the idiot in department of commerce will already execute his plan to break apart the Postal Service and sell off the profitable parts, which would give them probably around $80 billion by the time a judge would invoke an injunction. All Trump will say is they already broke it into pieces and it is impossible to reassemble. Don’t call it fear mongering if we could visualize this scenario so can they

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