Is Amazon Abusing the U.S Postal Service

  It is not breaking news anymore, people felt that coming, the Amazon chairman and owner Jeff Bezos has surpassed Bill Gates as the richest man and thanks to his awesome online retail shop. Unfraternally, success doesn’t come without the problem and one of the problem Amazon faces today is its system delivery. Recently the president Trump called out Amazon and said that there are avoiding taxes and using U.S Postal Service as “their Delivery Boy.”

            For some people the U.S Postal Service should, in fact, thank company like Amazon, and here is why. Last year the Postal Service had their revenue growth to 11.8 % or 2.1 billion in their shipping and package department, a special thanks to the e-commerce.

            In today society, people do not use letter and stamp as they use to back in the 80’s and 90’s, emails and social media have taken over, and the U.S Postal Office is suffering from it. Last year it – U.S Postal Office had encountered a loss of 2.7 billion leaving its pension and healthcare service vulnerable. Is it for those reasons that the president Trump is putting pressure on them? Maybe.

            U.S Postal Service is known for its low pricing, that is why the company such as Amazon does business with them. On the other hand, some think it is maybe time for them to raise their pricing a little bit. So, is Amazon wrong, and the president Trump is right? I personally do not know. All I do know is that USPS is not a business, it is a government service with a profitable structure for e-commerce.