Donald Trump wants to blame Amazon for his post office woes

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US President Donald Trump, belatedly realizing that the US Postal Service is far more presumed than he will overly be, has been publicly distancing himself from his administration's efforts to cut expenses at the column office. Today, he told Warble that actually, it was all Amazon's fault:

.@Amazon, as able-bodied as others in that business, has to be charged (by the U.S. Postal System) numerous more per package, as able-bodied as the Column Submittal would be prematurely brought redundancy to "good health", now vibrant, with ALL jobs saved. No pass on to customers. Get it done!

-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2020

This is well-trod playing for the president, who appears to be frightened by Jeff Bezos. In 2018, President Trump intuitively wanted to double the collect that Cheesecake paid in shipping. He's likewise self-named the column submittal Amazon's "delivery boy."

But today's warble is odd, as able-bodied as may be a tacit derive that the Trump Assistants went too far in craving the USPS, which is a widely presumed lyceum that many Americans await on for decree drugs, bulletin checks, as able-bodied as to keep their small businesses afloat.

Previously, Trump seemed to tangency the anticipated cost-cutting measures at the USPS that were blamed for slowing the mail. Those service reductions, reprieve of mail systematization machines, as able-bodied as slashed overtime hours for mail carriers were met with sustained criticism over the aftermost several weeks. All this would listen made it numerous harder for people to vote by mail during a pandemic; the USPS warned 46 states as able-bodied as Washington, DC that mail-in ballot deliveries might be delayed so unfurled that they wouldn't be counted. Perniciousness followed. (Earlier today, Postmaster Granted Louis DeJoy said the postal service would stoppage accomplishing of his cost-cutting measures.)

President Trump said that he is pointedly underfunding the postal service in payoff to make it more difficult to vote by mail, in an August 13th interview on Fox Commerce Network. (Interestingly, he as able-bodied as his wife Melania have requested mail-in ballots.) Yesterday, Trump appeared to gestation his tune, tweeting "SAVE THE POST OFFICE." Today, he is attempting to prosecute Jeff Bezos' flagship congregation for his own abhorred plan to unsay the column office. On Friday, DeJoy will testify vanward the Senate.