, Columnist
Death of the Postal Service Would Hurt Trump’s Base Most of All
His nemesis Amazon would be fine, but his supporters would suffer.
Amazon will keep on rolling.
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It’s no surprise that President Donald Trump wants to let the U. S. Postal Service die.
Remember in the spring of 2018, when Trump created a task force to “conduct a thorough evaluation of the operation and finances of the USPS?” His primary complaint then — and presumably now — was not so much that the Postal Service was losing billions every year but that it was aiding and abetting Amazon.com Inc., whose chief executive is Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, which Trump despises.