My father-in-law's always insisted how great it would be to work at the post office. They've got the best retirement plan, he tells me, and you get all those days off.

I usually shrug it off with a laugh. It's too rigid, boring – and have you seen the clothes?

But now I see what he's talking about. A new report out of the Congressional Budget Office confirms that thanks to those generous benefits plans my father-in-law's always talking about, federal workers enjoy 16 percent more in total comp than private sector peeps.

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