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Senate nears passage of bill to slow postal cuts

Bankruptcy at the Postal Service this fall could be avoided by offering retirement incentives to 100,000.

By Hope Yen | Updated on April 25, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate bill aimed at saving the U.S. Postal Service would make it harder to close thousands of low-revenue post offices and end Saturday mail delivery — steps the struggling agency says are needed to reduce billions in debt and become profitable again.

The measure takes steps to help the mail agency avert bankruptcy as early as this fall, giving it a cash infusion of $11 billion to pay off debt and reduce costs by offering retirementincentives to 100,000 employees. But the bill sidesteps most controversial decisions on postal closings, buying time for lawmakers who would rather avoid the wrath of constituencies in an election year.

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