yes but they still paid taxes......Depends on the era in which you worked, doesn't it? Decades ago, Federal (including Postal) employees did not pay into Social Security, right?i dont?....i worked for the PO...now why dont you prove i did not pay taxes.....obviously you don't.then she should have put it that way....but he is still paying taxes....do you understand?...well technically steph is right. A public employee paid by tax payers money, does not inject new tax dollars into the system. Understand?you said and i quote...."Your deductions in part went to pay your wages."......which is implying the tax payer pays postal employees which is bull....i got paid by a company that made its own money and i paid taxes like everyone else....AND i was replying to what steph said...public employees don't pay taxes....i sure as hell did...