The US Mail service (1.8.7) should be able to contract with delivery services as much as defense contractors work with the Pentagon imo.
But I also agree with Pres. Trump that Amazon shouldn’t be ripping off taxpayers.
Insights welcome.
It is absurd to claim that Amazon is "ripping off taxpayers."
Amazon doesn't set the price they pay. The negotiate it. The Post Office was already used to losing money on Bulk Mail and they obviously continued the tradition with Bulk Packages. Who would expect Amazon to suggest that they are not being charge enough by the Post Office, or any vendor?
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I’m not so sure the USPS is losing money on its Amazon deal. If you simply take their cost of doing business and divide it by the total number of units they deliver, it’s true that Amazon may pay less than this unit cost. But a lot of these USPS costs are fixed costs they’d be paying regardless of whether or not they delivers anything for Amazon. To examine this objectively you really need to look at just the incremental added cost of the Amazon deliveries, not the total cost for the USPS.