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Re: Isn't this illegal?

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Sat, 19 May 18 6:25 AM | 45 view(s)
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It's a normal feature of many market services that they serve populous communities and try to avoid serving areas with light populations. Simple economics explains it: the cost per consumer is higher in rural districts.

Whereas an organisation partly serving the common good, like USPS, is bound to provide service evenly. So it must invest in the infrastructure and labour necessary to do so. These are obligations USPS cannot avoid.

So the sorts of arrangements you are describing sound fairly logical in a mixed economy for both parties. Profit-making companies will seek to employ a supplier like USPS in rural areas. Delivering parcels for Amazon partly offsets the cost of the infrastructure and labour investment it is obliged to make for USPS.

But Trump's motives are reliably selfish and unrelated. He is targetting Amazon because Bezos also owns the Washington Post, which is hostile to him. He wants to extract a payment from Bezos. It's a shakedown of the same sort he has applied to Novartis and the other companies. Trump's methods and motives are already crystal clear.


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Re: Isn't this illegal?
By: Mymoneybegone
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Sat, 19 May 18 5:37 AM
Msg. 25246 of 54959

The PO has agreements like this in place with lots of hug mailers be it parcel or other. Part of the deal with Amazon is they handle a lot of the sorting and drop the packages off at individual post offices so they are just sorted to their delivery route. They aren't handled to the extent some other types of mail are. Maybe the Cheeto Benito needs to call out UPS for ripping of the consumer. They have a last mile agreement with USPS where they pay a fixed package fee for delivery and they sort those packages in house and drop those packages in the same manner as Amazon, yet they charge their customers their prevailing charge which in most cases in more than USPS Called the Last Mile Agreement. Maybe also come clean about other wanting to take over the business. You think Fed Ex wants to take USPS business when USPS is a major contributor of revenue for Fed Ex? read a financial statement from them. How about payments to the tune of 5 Billion a year since 2006 for health benefits for future employees 75 years in the future when its sufficiently funded for those working today as are the pensions for both retirement systems. Take into account that there are hundreds of thousands less full time employees presently than there were in 2006 as well. The losses for the most part are paper losses as the 5B has not been contributed over the past few years and was only supposed to go on through 2016. Just another punching bag for the right. The private sector wants nothing to do with the delivery of mail.

Thinks this is more fake news.. then why are their areas of this country that are still not served by UPS and thats a fact.


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