...guarantee program. It increases the loan guarantee from $18 billion to $30 billion, plus inflation; it allows the Federal Financing Bank to capitalize the pipeline, thus reducing administrative costs and interest rates; it clarifies that the federal...

...billion, almost equal to its total losses last year. So far, the Postal Service has depended on loans from the Federal Financing Bank, a federal borrowing agency, to help make up the difference, but it is fast approaching its $15 billion credit...