Trump routinely criticizes Amazon, without evidence, for leading to the demise of the post office.
The president repeated his longstanding criticism that Amazon and other internet retailers are to blame for the post office's problems.
Trump is right that the post office continues to lose billions of dollars per year, but its package delivery business actually helps it bring in money.is to blame for the U.S. Postal Service's demise. "Amazon and other companies like it, they come and they drop all of their mail into a post office," Trump said in an interview with "Fox & Friends." "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."
The president was asked about concerns that the Trump administration is interfering with the post office in order to impact voting in the November presidential election. The Postal Servicehundreds of mail-processing machines across the country and warned dozens of states that it may not be able to process mail-in ballots in time to be counted in the Nov. 3 presidential election.
Trump said the post office could solve its financial issues by raising delivery rates to offset alleged delivery costs fueled by online retailers. "This guy is supposed to be so wealthy, so let him pay for it," Trump added, appearing to refer to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.The comments echoed similar remarks by Trump
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