At the height of a public health and economic crisis, President Trump and his GOP allies are focused instead on an all-out assault on a critical public service: the popular, 245-year-old United States Postal Service.
But President Trump routinely ridicules the USPS, calling this essential public service a “joke.”
He attacks USPS because it delivers packages for Amazon, founded by The Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos; Trump routinely claims that USPS loses money on Amazon services.
Killing USPS would give Amazon and Bezos one of the greatest gifts imaginable: a nationwide oligopoly, with UPS and FedEx, over all letter and package deliveries throughout the United States, freed from their low-price competitor, USPS.
If Trump and the GOP destroy the Postal Service, Jeff Bezos will laugh all the way to the bank, and Amazon will become even more powerful.
