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I'm told this is illegal. Crisis averted!

In 2018 the treasury department couldn't prove that Amazon is getting a deal that the USPS is losing money on. By law the competitive services business, i.e. package delivery, must not lose money, and rates, volume, and $$ keep going up. There are ways that Amazon benefits from the USPS, though, specifically with them having to deliver to every address in the US. Last mile rural delivery can be relatively unprofitable and is the same cost as urban and suburban delivery where Amazon is displacing third party delivery services. Urban and suburban delivery is also where the vast majority of deliveries take place, and any increase in cost to Amazon may end up costing more in volume and $$ in these areas than gained from a cost increase because Amazon is both a customer and competitor. The USPS can't have a two tiered cost system because congress has mandated flat rates. Fwiw, ups and FedEx do the same thing. If you want to fix the USPS, you have to have congress do so. They need flexibility in how to generate revenue from non-postal activities (postal banking for example), which congress has mandated they can't do, they need flexibility in how to cost rural delivery to large customers, which congress has mandated it can't do, and it needs flexibility or loosening of it's onerous requirements in how it funds it's pension and health programs for retirees, which congress has mandated it can't do. Or have congress make at least some package delivery a monopoly for the USPS. Otherwise the design of the post office is to subsidize rural delivery with profitable urban and suburban routes. And having a customer who is also a competitor on the profitable routes undercuts this model, but again, this isn't a fault of the USPS, but on congress and Amazon respectively.

I mean, who didn't shut the fuck up about this one specific scenario though?

Called it years ago. There's a lot the president can do in bad faith that his lawyers can justify

"Amazon is screwing the post office" rings really fucking hollow now. Maybe this has something to do with the fuck wad PMG having a vested interest in Amazon.

All talk

Was murdered by the CIA but yeah

He's a fucking medical doctor and clearly was not taking precautions that one would expect

All because she and the rest of leadership won't retire Looking over a few of the standing committees there's only 3 members born after 1955, and several born in the late 1930s.

Never forget! Get fucked Nancy

They're angry alright. Angry that the deep state is coming after republicans but not corrupt deep swamp Dems!

Jail but not prison

I figured that was the case but I don't know enough about Japanese land use planning with regard to limited access freeways to say definitively lol

If we're lucky we might get portions of the civil rights and voting rights acts from congress, and if we're really lucky we'll see a return of the health insurance mandate.

And they (probably) didn't deliberately use it as a means to destroy communities of ethnic and racial minorities, and occasionally the poor whites. I do love Japanese zoning and urban planning though.

Winners all I do hope trump washes his hands of these people and doesn't give them a pardon. That would be hilarious

It's a decent highway system, but terrible for human transportation, the environment, rail transportation networks, the built environment of cities themselves, and human health. Objectively bad!

This is triggering. The interstate highway system is objectively bad

I hate you so much Canada. This is so good.