Saturday, May 19, 2018

Trump Personally Pushed Postmaster General to Double Rates on Amazon


President Trump has personally pushed U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon and other firms to ship packages, reports the Washington Post.

Brennan has so far resisted Trump’s demand, explaining in multiple conversations occurring this year and last that these arrangements are bound by contracts and must be reviewed by a regulatory commission, according to WaPo. She has told the president that the Amazon relationship is beneficial for the Postal Service and gave him a set of slides that showed the variety of companies, in addition to Amazon, that also partner for deliveries.

Notes WaPo:
Few U.S. companies have drawn Trump’s ire as much as Amazon, which has rapidly grown to be the second-largest U.S. company in terms of market capitalization. For more than three years, Trump has fumed publicly and privately about the giant commerce and services company and its founder Jeffrey P. Bezos, who is also the owner of The Washington Post.
I am no fan of the government-controlled United States Post Office but from a free market perspective, the Post Office should be shut down---not used as a tool against political enemies.

-Robert Wenzel  



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