Perhaps it is an inevitability. When a Federal employee or a U.S. Postal worker suffers from a medical condition, such that the medical condition begins to impact one or more of the essential elements of one’s job, the reaction of the agency for whom he or she works (or the U.S. Postal Service), is often one of lack of supportive behaviors, to propose an understatement.

Reacting to a reactionary response, however, is not always the intelligent thing to do. When the Federal employee or the U.S. Postal Service recognizes a need to file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits through […]