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AFAIK in the USA you can't offer individually targeted early retirement etc. incentives as this could be viewed as discriminatory, so it would have been difficult for DL to fine tune the offers to current positions and skill sets. Everyone in a broad employee class is offered the same package and it can be difficult to control or predict who accepts the offer.