SuicidalGoat
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Once again another pussyhat wearer makes knee jerk statements in a sloppy rush to attack the President. IN 2013 Amazon demanded the USPS provide Sunday delivery as a regular service. Nice, deceptive wording you have there to suggest it was congress that forced the USPS to take on an additional burden. It was the Obama administration's cozy relationship with Bezos that helped push this through. I'm sure Bezos buying the official Democrat cheerleader newspaper in the same year had nothing to do with this, no quid pro quo, right?
By DAN MITCHELL
November 13, 2013
FORTUNE — Why does Amazon’s new deal with the U.S. Postal Service to provide Sunday deliveries to Amazon Prime customers seem so unsettling? I can think of three reasons: the exclusivity (we’ll get mail on Sundays, but only mail from Amazon); the dynamic of a private enterprise hiring out a government agency as a contractor; and the fact that, as the Wall Street Journal put it, the deal is a “marriage of one of the country’s most successful enterprises with one of its most troubled.”
Amazon and the Postal Service are both mum on the deal’s details, so it’s difficult to answer many of the questions that it raises. Such as: How much will it help shore up the USPS’s losses, estimated to be $3.9 billion so far this year? Will other companies be able to make similar deals? If so, will smaller companies also be able to get in on the action? What will the deal do for Amazon’s bottom line as investors increasingly clamor for better results? Why didn’t Amazon choose a private delivery service to partner with?
The postal service is losing billions in the aggregate. What they are charging for their services does not cover their expenses. You can't attribute that loss to any specific USPS service, it's a systemic issue. Amazon benefits disproportionately from that situation, and the losses would be lower if they hadn't had to make specific changes Amazon required them to, like purchasing much larger vehicles, and making Sunday delivery a regular service. Read the agreement Amazon made with the USPS and it's clear the additional expenses incurred by the USPS are definitely contributing to its loss and profiting from artificially low rates.
So where is this agreement, so we can all read it just like you?