He actually tries to keep promises in spite of never-ending attack.
Amazon and China have been ripping off the USPS with very distorted low postal rates that put American companies at a Big disadvantage.
Essentially, U.S. citizens are subsidizing the U.S. Postal Service's lose of revenue because of the sweetheart deal Amazon gets to ship goods from China well below actual Postal Service cost.
Trump is ending Bezos abuse of our postal service.
Now.
Now he’s gone and done it. The Washington Post will start writing bad stories about the President.
He has focus and COJONES!
I’m sure some federal judge is preparing their nationwide injunction to stop this as we speak
The USPS since 2011 is the to blame, not China.
Take a walk down memory lane:
President Trump making America great again!
we need him to focus on a special counsel or hillary/comey/ rosenstien et al. NOW. Quickly. He seems frozen into inaction on their abuse of process and we need to abuse little process of our own.
I know someone who works for the post office, and she says the revenue they get from Amazon is not nearly enough to cover the vastly increased volume of bulky packages they handle as a result of Amazon.
——in many cases not fully reimbursed by the foreign postal operator for the cost of delivering foreign-origin letter post items-—
I order stuff on ebay that actually comes quickly out of China/hong Kong.
I bought som wash bottles and empty ink cartridges sourced from China. Two wash bottles cost $1.53 delivered by USPO. On the envelope is a customs /postage receipt indicating $0 postage was paid to the Chinese postal syatem. In effect China is apparently receiving mail to the USA that has the required customs label and for which no postage is paid. The USPO receives the package and delivers it for in essance $0.
I’m glad to see this go in effect. I hope I have enought of the wash bottles. They are some made in the USA but you must buy 24.
Silicon War: How Donald Trump Can End Amazons Sweetheart Postal Service Deal
Looks to me like the POTUS has got the right idea. Again.
BUSINESS NEWS
AUGUST 24, 2018 / 1:27 PM / UPDATED 11 MINUTES AGO
U.S. calls foreign mail system unfair in surprise win for Amazon
Jeffrey Dastin
(Reuters) - The U.S. State Department on Friday said it would push for foreign postal carriers to pay the U.S. Postal Service more to deliver small parcels within the United States, taking up a longtime complaint by Amazon.com (AMZN.O), UPS (UPS.N) and others who have alleged the current system is unfair.
Amazon and China have been ripping off the USPS with very distorted low postal rates that put American companies at a Big disadvantage. Essentially, U.S. citizens are subsidizing the U.S. Postal Service's lose of revenue because of the sweetheart deal Amazon gets to ship goods from China well below actual Postal Service cost.
Thanks MarchonDC09122009.
This is not just Amazon. There are a ****load of Chinese sellers on eBay selling all sorts of items at low or zero shipping cost to the buyer. I have purchased quite a few of such items myself, but I prefer buying from US sellers if they can get reasonably close on total cost (say, 20-30% more), and some do. Problem is, sometimes the item is ONLY available from a Chinese seller.* Other times the US sellers are 2x (or more) the item cost before one even gets to the shipping cost.
*Ok, so I buy some relatively uncommon items... :-)
Oddly enough (given my eBay “history”), in terms of $$ I’d say well under 5% of what I buy on Amazon comes from Chinese sellers. Last year, I don’t think anything I bought from Amazon shipped to me from China.
Y’ know... Way back during the campaign, I wrote the Trump campaign pointing out this very thing as an example of the unfair playing field many US small businesses were faced with. I think I mentioned it here on FR as well (not sure -it’s been a while, and lots has happened since!) I thought it might make a good campaign issue — just pointing out in another way how the system was “rigged”. I am sure others had the same thought.
I never saw this issue mentioned in the campaign, but, maybe the complaints eventually found an ear!