Amazon making US postal services ‘suffer’, says Trump

It’s no secret that US president Donald Trump is not a fan of Amazon or its CEO Jeff Bezos, who happens to be the world’s richest man. Trump has been quite vocal in his criticism of Amazon and Bezos and one of the issues he has is how Amazon has hurt the US postal services. Trump once again took a shot at Amazon in an interview where he said that the US is losing “massive amounts of money” because of Amazon.
According to a report by CNBC, the US president in an interview with Fox and Friends said, “Amazon and other companies like it, they come and they drop all of their mail into a post office. They drop packages into the post office by the thousands and then they say, ‘Here, you deliver them.’ We lose $3 and $4 a package on average. We lose massive amounts of money.”
Trump then took a ‘dig’ at Bezos as well without taking his name directly. He said that that the post office could get rid of its financial issues if they raised delivery rates that have been affected due to online retailers like Amazon. “This guy is supposed to be so wealthy, so let him pay for it,” he said in an obvious reference to Bezos. Amazon does rely on the US postal services but has other delivery partners like Fedex and UPS as well.