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posted by mrpg on Saturday December 30 2017, @07:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the nobody-thinks-of-the-dogs dept.

Trump targets Amazon in call for postal service to hike prices

U.S. President Donald Trump targeted Amazon on Friday in a call for the country's postal service to raise prices of shipments in order to recoup costs, picking another fight with the online retail giant he has criticized in the past. "Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer? Should be charging MUCH MORE!" Trump wrote on Twitter.

The U.S. Postal Service, which runs at a big loss, is an independent agency within the federal government and does not receive tax dollars for operating expenses, according to its website. The organization makes up a significant portion of the $1.4 trillion U.S. delivery industry. Other players include United Parcel Service Inc and Fedex Corp.

[...] Amazon has shown interest in the past in shifting into its own delivery service. In 2015, the company spent $11.5 billion on shipping, 46 percent of its total operating expenses that year. In October, Bloomberg reported that Amazon was testing its own delivery service to move products more quickly out of its overcrowded warehouses and make more of them available for free two-day delivery. However, Amazon said at the time that it was using the same carrier partners to offer the program as it has used for years, including the U.S. Postal Service, UPS and FedEx.


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  • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 30 2017, @08:51AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 30 2017, @08:51AM (#615797)

    Only several out of how many businesses?

    ALL of them? Perhaps you should examine the recent tax returns of this failed con-man.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by tonyPick on Saturday December 30 2017, @09:25AM (1 child)

    by tonyPick (1237) on Saturday December 30 2017, @09:25AM (#615801) Homepage Journal

    The nearest you can get...

    http://www.newsweek.com/2016/08/12/donald-trumps-business-failures-election-2016-486091.html [newsweek.com]

    Lost contracts, bankruptcies, defaults, deceptions and indifference to investors—Trump’s business career is a long, long list of such troubles, according to regulatory, corporate and court records, as well as sworn testimony and government investigative reports. Call it the art of the bad deal, one created by the arrogance and recklessness of a businessman whose main talent is self-promotion.

    He is also pretty good at self-deception, and plain old deception. Trump is willing to claim success even when it is not there, according to his own statements. “I’m just telling you, you wouldn’t say that you're failing,” he said in a 2007 deposition when asked to explain why he would give an upbeat assessment of his business even if it was in trouble. “If somebody said, ‘How you doing?’ you're going to say you're doing good.” Perhaps such dissembling is fine in polite cocktail party conversation, but in the business world it’s called lying.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 31 2017, @02:29AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 31 2017, @02:29AM (#616044)

      I ragged on Killery the other day.
      It's Drumf's turn today.
      Where Trump used the name "Crooked Hillary" (an accurate description), Ralph Nader suggests "Cheating Donald" for The Orange One.
      Cheating Donald [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [commondreams.org]

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]