The Senate passed a Postal Service overhaul bill intended tosave the cash-strapped organization from default.

The measure was passed 62-37. The bill would make it harder forthe Postal Service to close facilities, authorize it to providenon-postal products and services, revise payments to two federalfunds that provide worker retirement benefits, and install aninnovation officer to create new business practices.

Enactment would show that “we can face a tough problem thatexists in a public service,” said Connecticut independent JoeLieberman, the bill's sponsor. He said the proposal will “askpeople to sacrifice but keep a venerable and critically importantAmerican institution alive and well.”

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