Senators offer plan to save cash-strapped USPS

Published August 2, 2013 9:47pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — Saturday mail delivery would be ended in a year and the Postal Service could start shipping alcoholic beverages under a plan offered Friday by two key senators seeking to turn around the struggling agency’s finances.

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper, D-Del., and the panel’s ranking Republican, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, said they hope Congress can act quickly to help the agency.

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