The USPS is also subsidizing Amazon. They lose money on every Amazon package. Trump told them to raise rates and make other changes necessary.
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also ebay - like a buck a package
I’m pretty sure the issue is that Amazon has their own fleet of trucks where costs are low ... like in major cities.
Then they can dump off the high-priced areas, like rural, to the USPS.
It’s just rational business on their part, I must say.
The Post Office has a long history of charging the same price for deliveries regardless of location. If they keep this practice, but increase prices as POTUS is demanding, then Amazon and others will expand their own fleets removing additional “profitable” areas from the USPS.
Possibly the high costs of rural areas will be mitigated when packages and letters are delivered by drones.