The U.S. Postal Service defends against criticism that recent action taken by the postmaster general will hamper the expected rise of post-in-vote due to the coronavirus, President Trump said the agency’s biggest problem is dealing with behemoths like Amazon.
“One of the biggest problems – perhaps the biggest problem with a post office – is Amazon. Amazon and other companies love it, “Trump said in an interview Monday with Fox & Friends. ”
‘They come in and they throw all their mail in a post office – not everything, but a large percentage of it – and they say,’ Here you deliver it, you stupid people, you delivered it. “And it costs us every time they drop a package,” he added.
Trump, who has been at odds with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post for years, said the online shopping giant is taking advantage of the USPS to deliver its packages.
“It costs us about $ 3 to deliver the package for them. Three dollars a pack. We are losing a fortune, I said, ‘You have to raise the rates, you have to raise the rates.’ But Amazon, they always build a big plant at a post office, and then they take a lot of that mail to areas where they could never go, because the postal system is massive, ”he said.
‘And they throw packages through the thousands in the post office … and they throw it but drop it and then they say,’ Here, you deliver it. ‘ And we lose on average $ 3 and $ 4 a pack. We are losing massive amounts of money, and I would have to increase the price. This man must be so rich. That will increase the price. Let him pay for it. Why does the post office pay for delivery for Amazon, and in all fairness for other services like that, “he continued.
Chamber member Nancy Pelosi reminded members of the House back from the August break later this week to pass legislation that would prohibit the USPS from changing services that were already in place earlier this year.
Democrats have worried that actions taken by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy could leave the system unprepared to handle the expected rise of ballot papers in the post office this November.
Trump and DeJoy said the guidelines he issued were an attempt to make the agency more efficient.
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