![]() ![]() The US Postal Service’s financial woes are, by now, well-documented: In November 2017, the Postal Service took a net loss of $2.7 billion. The Postal Service is bleeding money - but its parcel services are doing okay Larger institutional problems in the age of email and two-hour delivery are really to blame - but also much, much harder to fix. It’s also hard to know how sweet that deal might be because those agreements aren’t public.īut the Postal Service’s problems are deeper than just delivering packages. And it’s likely that Amazon gets a good deal, given that it ships millions of boxes a year. ![]() The Postal Service does lose billions each year, and has for the past decade. Is Trump right that Amazon is ripping off the Postal Service? The question of whether it should or could charge more is complicated. Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer? Should be charging MUCH MORE!- Donald J. Trump has previously accused Amazon of making the post office “dumber and poorer.” He seems to still think that Amazon is getting a free ride from the USPS. But this isn’t the first time Trump has accused Amazon of posing a bad deal for the US postal system. The latest tweet appeared to be prompted by a report in Axios that Trump is “obsessed” with the company. Trump has apparently been worrying for a long time about Amazon paying “little or no taxes to state & local governments” and that it’s using “our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.),” and is “putting many thousands of retailers out of business!” (A quick Twitter scan reveals that before declaring his candidacy Trump mostly just mentioned Amazon to promote his book Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again.) Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business!- Donald J. I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. ![]()
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