Trump continues to attack on Amazon — and accused of collusion with the US postal service

US President , Donald trump continues to attack on Amazon.com. In his Tuesday tweet the President has accused the company in charge of billions of dollars from taxpayers, thanks to a special deal with the U.S. postal service.

In recent days, Amazon is strictly not lucky in the stock market. After a few posts trump Twitter it shares sank: their market value has fallen by more than $50 billion. And, judging by the activity of the President of the United States, this is not the last loss of the company.

«I was right about the fact that Amazon on pair with the US postal service has managed to earn a lot of money. All of these costs fell on the shoulders of taxpayers, and they are intended to compensate [the taxpayer] for the cost. The billions of dollars. Do their leaders do not understand this? Or, you know?», writes trump.

I am right about Amazon costing the United States Post Office is massive amounts of money for being their Delivery Boy. Amazon should pay these costs (plus) and not have them bourne by the American Taxpayer. Many billions of dollars. P. O. leaders don’t have a clue (or do they?)!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 3, 2018

At the moment the evidence of the statements of trump no. On the one hand, the details of the transaction between Amazon.com and the US postal service (USPS) are not disclosed. On the other hand, they work together quite satisfied customers whose number is growing every day. Know that Amazon regularly uses the USPS for so-called «last mile» delivery to the door of the end customer. By the end of 2015, the USPS handled about 40% of the company’s orders.

In their tweets trump also mentioned the Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, calling the publication of «fake news» and accused of lobbying Amazon.

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