Trump reportedly wants to punish Amazon by trying to double Postal Service rates

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Like Amazon or not, this is wrong in so many ways.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/18/17369482/donald-trump-amazon-jeff-bezos-feud-punish-postal-service-rates

President Donald Trump has personally asked the Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the US Postal Service charges companies like Amazon to use its services, according to a report from The Washington Post today. The move is just the latest, and perhaps most dramatic, turn in the ongoing feud between the sitting president and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world and owner of The Washington Post. Trump has often criticized the newspaper for its coverage of his administration.

Brennan has managed to keep Trump at bay, fearful the request could massively complicate existing contracts between the USPS and companies like Amazon, many of which are reportedly reviewed by a regulatory commission, The Post reports. Yet last month, Trump ordered a Postal Service review via executive order so that a task force can evaluate the finances of the organization, presumably to help back up his claim that it loses billions a year due to poor deals struck with Amazon and others.

[Glamrock]

1. Not just wrong...

Illegal.

[IluvPitties]

2. What a sick bastard.

[RKP5637]

5. The asshole wants to be the first US dictator. n/t

[TimeSnowDemos]

3. Let him

Amazon will just raise the price of shipping, thanks to the Trump Tax.

[Chipper Chat]

8. of course.

The hike will be 100% passed on to the buyer. Trump is so ignorant.

[TimeSnowDemos]

14. IF it's like anything that's come before it

MORE than 100% will be passed on...

It's like all those businesses that used 9/11 to fire full-time employees and replace them with part ones... corporations will use any and every trick to make a buck... even Trump's stupidity and awfulness.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. He must be under the totally mistaken impression

that Amazon foots the shipping bill, not the people who ordered whatever.

[treestar]

6. It's all about Dotard and his personal feuds

and feelings! Regardless of damage to others, including the Deplorables.

[RKP5637]

7. And many/most of the Deplorables are too ignorant to figure out what's going on. n/t

[malaise]

9. Check this out - Trump risks presidency using his power to pursue personal animus

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show

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10. Yep, I was just watching that when you sent your message. tRump is going right

down the same path as Nixon and worse. This person Trump is a dangerous character and off balance in so many ways.

[malaise]

11. Yes indeed

He's an ignorant fool with no knowledge of history.

[DrDan]

12. if he is successful, Amazon should respond by adding a "Trump surcharge" so all are aware where the

additional shipping charges came from - and how much more they are paying.

[RKP5637]

17. Yep!!! n/t

[dawg]

13. They'll just use UPS or Fed Ex instead.

And the Post Office will lose a huge source of revenue.

[justhanginon]

15. Which may be his whole point when all is said and done.

The repubs have wanted to privatize the USPS for a long time and this would certainly help by depriving it of much needed revenue.
God, how I hate these bastards and all who support them.

[RKP5637]

16. Here, Amazon uses their own delivery service, their own trucks, etc., the whole thing.

I don't know how it is in other areas, but certainly UPS or FedX should work. They all work together.

I understand sometimes stuff goes by FedX, I believe, and then USPS delivers the last part to a person's house, because USPS can deliver anyplace. I think this is sometimes how it works in really rural areas.

The guy's an idiot, really, he is clearly not intelligent at all. I don't see how he got where he is, except people often cave into bullies and money. I don't get it why Deplorables still support him. Just about everything he does hurts them. What stooges.

Someone once told me at USPS that if it were not for Amazon and eBay packages they would really be hurting, that that is a large part of their business.