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The Velveteen Ocelot

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9. Amazon is already using its own service for about half of its deliveries,

Reply to Flaleftist (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 29, 2020, 07:02 PM

Apr 2020

and it uses UPS and FedEx for most of the rest; USPS handles a relatively small percentage of Amazon's packages - so if His Lardship is trying to screw Bezos by making USPS more expensive, it won't work. I do think he wants to privatize USPS, which is already sort of private because it has to pay for itself.

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Trump says internet retailers using the post office must pay more [View all] turbinetree Apr 2020 OP

The more you charge, the more likely Amazon is to take market share away from the post office Flaleftist Apr 2020 #1

Amazon is already using its own service for about half of its deliveries, The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #9

Any point in telling Trump that we already have a Postal Rate Commission? Botany Apr 2020 #2

For information:The United States Postal Regulatory Commission elleng Apr 2020 #3

Translation: WE will pay more. It's the same as with the stupid tariffs. flibbitygiblets Apr 2020 #4

Those "rates" which Trump keeps harping on bring billions of dollars in revenue. Caliman73 Apr 2020 #5

+1000000 crickets Apr 2020 #6

I think Bezos has already planned for that. gibraltar72 Apr 2020 #7

Amazon still uses UPS and FedEx and to a smaller extent USPS, but The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #8

Yeah that's what I figured. Trump is always behind the curve. gibraltar72 Apr 2020 #10

About half of our deliveries displacedtexan Apr 2020 #13

So Amazon will just stop using them and USPS and will lose more business? Brilliant Baclava Apr 2020 #11

But he apparently had no problem using the USPS to mail out those worthless tax letters. Initech Apr 2020 #12

He votes by mail. safeinOhio Apr 2020 #15

He's trying very hard to bring down the economy by suggesting this. FloridaBlues Apr 2020 #14

Which like his dumbass tariffs will be passed on to the consumer Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2020 #16