Trump Personally Pushed Postmaster General To Double Rates on Amazon, Other Firms: Report (washingtonpost.com)

President Trump personally urged the leader of the U.S. Postal Service to double the rates the agency charges Amazon and other firms for delivery packages in several private conversations in 2017 and 2018, The Washington Post reported Friday (alternative source). From the report: Postmaster General Megan 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, the three people said. 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.

Despite these presentations, Trump has continued to level criticism at Amazon. And last month, his critiques culminated in the signing of an executive order mandating a government review of the financially strapped Postal Service that could lead to major changes in the way it charges Amazon and others for package delivery. 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.

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Re:Trump is personally going to Prison

[bobbied]

For what?

Well, I can tell you this, it won't be before January 20, 2025. At the rate the Muller investigation is going, he's got nothing and you cannot charge a sitting president.

How do you know it's more expensive?

[SuperKendall]

It seems like the increase would merely put it in line with the cost of existing services.

The whole issue here is that the USPS is subsidizing Amazon delivery, by charging rates lower than what it actually costs to ship things. Other mail fees are subsidizing Amazon, how is that right???

Re:How do you know it's more expensive?

[AlanBDee]

Ugh... I'm not going to read a financial report. If I wanted to do that I'd be working. Someone let me know when you've read it and confirmed that it's a lie, or not.

Re:How do you know it's more expensive?

[magarity]

They're not subsidizing Amazon. They were turning a mild profit until they were forced to pre-pay pensions by law instead of acting like any other government or private entity.

Are you giving this as a complaint? Should the Post Office not fund their pension plans and go broke like any other government entity?

Re:funny when Trumpies try deflecting from Mueller

[bobbied]

There's nothing partisan about Republican Robert Mueller being allowed by a Republican Congress and Republican FBI director to continue and finish, come what may, his legitimate and legally appointed investigation into high crimes.

LOL.. Two things you need to know. First, You cannot charge a president with a crime while in office. Second, be careful what you wish for. Muller may actually find a crime on the democrat side and then where will we be?

Donald is going to prison. Donald Junior is going to prison. Others are going to prison. The question as asked, is Mike Pence also in legal jeopardy, stands as the most important thing we do not currently know much if at all.

Again, for what? Include citations and what crimes you think took place because this whole "He's obviously guilty!" without actually telling us of what is ridiculous political claptrap and wishful thinking.

BTW, Don Jr was pretty much out of harms way a this point. They released a pile of documents on this the last few days. He didn't do anything wrong.

Re:funny when Trumpies try deflecting from Mueller

[bobbied]

You are the first reasonable person to have said something very insightful regarding this topic. So many anon cowards who can't put a name to their comment, when spewing all the hatred on either side.

Yea, but my karma suffers... The liberals hate reasonable discussions about this whole crazy politically motivated claims of criminality and moderate me down.

Re: Demand curve

[Mashiki]

No business man worth his salt could lose money on a casino.

You're an idiot. No other way to put it. You know how you lose money on a casino? Casino glut. Too many for the few too people to keep it afloat. I can't read Trump's mind, but I'm guessing it went something like this: Buys a failing casino, with poor RoT. Figures most of the issues aren't related to marketshare of people to the number of available casino's. And that the actual problems related to various mundane issues, corruption, top-heavy management, and so on. So here's what happens, expectation a gets squished by reality b.

Need some more examples? Look at the province of Ontario, in Canada. There's some ~17m people living the areas from Port Huron/Sarnia and Detroit/Windsor through to Quebec City. Should be booming for local casino markets and so on right? Nope. Government pushed hard on casino's, dumped hard on the race tracks(several of which are now defunct). Had them popping up all over the place, and...after the novelty wore off, around 40% of them were shutdown in the first 5 years. The tracks that were pushed out for the casinos and weren't "big volume" earners, are still gone. And will likely never come back because the racing industry has moved to new circuits.

See how easy that is? Your understanding of the underlying market is the problem, failure to properly observe the market conditions is what got Trump and his casino bankruptcy. The turn around is, he learned from that and adjusted his portfolio acquisitions. You on the other hand? Probably still think he's an idiot.