Top Dems Correct the Record on President Trump’s Multiple Unsubstantiated Claims Against Amazon
Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, sent a letter to President Donald Trump in response to troubling reports that he is using his authority as president to launch political attacks against Amazon and its founder, Jeff Bezos, and to pressure the Postal Service to raise its rates for Amazon.
“We are writing in response to troubling reports that you are using the authority of your office to launch political attacks against Amazon and its founder, Jeffrey Bezos, and to pressure the Postal Service to raise its rates for Amazon in retaliation for perceived wrongs against you. We are also writing to correct multiple unsubstantiated claims you have made via Twitter relating to these matters,” the Ranking Members wrote.
On May 18, 2018, the Washington Post reported that, in “multiple conversations occurring this year and last,” President Trump “personally pushed U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon.com and other firms to ship packages, according to three people familiar with their conversations, a dramatic move that probably would cost these companies billions of dollars.”
According to this report, the Postmaster General resisted Trump’s demands and provided him with information showing that “the Amazon relationship is beneficial for the Postal Service.” Despite being provided this information, President Trump continued his Twitter attacks against Amazon on March 31, 2018 and April 3, 2018.
The Oversight Committee has now obtained documents from the Postal Service, in response to a previous letter from Subcommittee Chairman Mark Meadows and Ranking Member Connolly, demonstrating that President Trump’s repeated attacks against Amazon are inaccurate.
The Postal Service produced contracts to the Committee on May 11, 2018 and asked the Committee not to release them because they contain confidential business information. However, Cummings and Connolly released the following information based on a review of the contracts:
“First, Amazon is not receiving any preferential treatment from the Postal Service. It is paying package delivery rates comparable to FedEx and UPS. Amazon is the largest shipper of packages by the Postal Service, and the Negotiated Service Agreement between the Postal Service and Amazon has been reviewed thoroughly by the Postal Regulatory Commission to ensure profitability.
“Second, the Postal Service’s package delivery services with Amazon and other retailers has been one of the few areas of growth in Postal Service revenues, experiencing double-digit increases in recent years and accounting for nearly 30% of its operating revenue in fiscal year 2017.
“Third, the Postal Service’s package delivery services not only help mitigate losses in other areas, but provide the American people with low-cost services for retail purchases. These contracts are constantly renegotiated, sometimes multiple times each year,” the Members wrote.
“It is highly inappropriate to use the authority of your office to attack a political rival and seek to impair his business financially,” Cummings and Connolly wrote. “It is even more inappropriate to launch such attacks using false claims that are not supported by the facts. The allegations you have made about Amazon and the Postal Service are inaccurate, and we ask that you correct the record.”
Click here to read today’s letter.
Click here to read the letter from Meadows and Connolly.
Click here to read the response letter from the Postal Service.
So the Postal crowd is selfish and self serving. Don’t forget the Democrat Communist, they are self serving too! What about the President Dump crowd? All they care about is listening to Mr. Bankruptcy and all his lies. Cries about the deficit, while his family goes up to Whistler, B.C. for a ski trip. Total cost $300,300 to the sucker tax payer. Huge tax cuts to the rich. Selfish Commie Democrats. The Ratpublicans aren’t self serving, not at all! Mr. Bankruptcy cries about all the children and adults crossing the border. Too many children he cries, then why did he cut birth control funding for foreign countries? So they could have more children they can’t take care of!
after 55 years, the Sears store in Hicksville, Long Island, New York is closing its door. property sold for over $100 Million Dollars. it was one of the flagship stores on the East Coast. RIP! there is no fooling “Mr Market” when you lose $Billions of Dollars……he gets you in the end!
I thought I was the only one who knew the post office crowd are a bunch of “Me, Myself, & I” lol and 95% are Democrats. selfish and self-serving, boy you got that right. right along with the communist democrat kool aid doxie. its all coming to an end.
Oh you Hillary lovers. How many lies have the Crats told? Elijah Cummings is just a stupid idiot looking for publicity. Amazon has always made out from the sweat on your backs. The Crats just don’t look too good right now. Just keep on kicking and fighting. Oh and lying.
Amazon has caused more Americans to lose their jobs than any company in history…See Toys are us see Radio shack see Kmart see Sears…How’s many people at these stores are out of work because of Bezos…wtodd and his scummy liberals don’t give a crap about them..My BEAUTIFUL president Trump wants this to stop..Charge em triple!!!
funny I learned “ME, MYSELF, & I” from the postal slugs I have worked with over the last 30 years……..most selfish, low class bums you ever want to meet. would slit their grandmothers throat for 1 hour overtime. kiss the stupidvisors a@@ and rat you out for an extra 5 minute lunch) well I agree, give me a 40K buyout so I can retire so I never have to be involved with a postal slug as long as I live. that alone would make me vote for President Trump again in 2020. the PO Mismanagement trash and thug company unions are all in the same corrupt pot. how this place is still in business….only God knows! all the people who drive Honda, Nissan, Toyota, Kia etc can all have a good group cry down at the unemployment office….I would shed not a tear. bring it down man, bring it all down man. why should the American people settle for cat food (Postal Circus) when they can have Filet Migon. (UPS, FDX, AMZN)
Miss Sum Ting Wong you don’t care if many people lose their jobs, retirement, or health care. You, like all good RATPUBLICANS only care about yourself! All you think about is your BUYOUT. Just wait for turn. You will fall to the wayside and people will step on you. Time wounds all heels How can you tell when a RATPUBLICAN lies? when they breath
During the last 30 years has any plan, program, equipment worked like the Postal Service proposed it would? Delivery vehicles are inadequate? Management is a micromanagement circus! The Postal Service is maintaining profitability? Then why all the financial instability? Why all the PRIVATE CONTRACTS? The Amazon relationship is beneficial for the Postal Service?
Maybe for Postal and Amazon management and politicians but not for the employees who are getting paid less for more work and continue to keep getting rear-ended along with all the the tax payers who are funding Amazon to build in their community. Just what comparable rate is Amazon paying? How do wages of Postal craft employees compare to UPS and Fedex employees who only handle parcels? Who tells the BIGGEST LIES????
Believe me that CROOKED HILLARY and that LITTLE STEVE BEZOS are putting the great citizens of our country in harms way with this low cost alternative to fedex and ups. They’ve opened the doors to a NATIONAL SECURITY CRISIS by letting people order cheap CHINESE goods ( other than ivankas) and have IMMIGRANTS ROAM FREELY in neighborhoods and STEALING FROM GREAT AMERICANS. It’s a SAD DAY when POSTMASTER MUFFIN BRENNAN doesn’t stop this CRIME.
Yes, because USPS mgmt. is so trustworthy with contracts and financial numbers this contract must be legit. Wrong. The USPS itself admits to almost $300 million annually in contract fraud in other contracts.
Corruption is how they do things. These congressmen were just sold a bunch of lies and false documents.
Just like they do to the public and their employees on a daily basis.
Charge em triple!!!
how can you tell a DemoKKKat is lying……their lips move! Give Me A $40K BUYOUT!
Democrap liars…..3rd class trash mail has never made any money. PO Bureaucrats in bed with the mailing houses….now they are in bed with Bezos and AMZN. guess with Pitney Bowes getting out of snail mail, these clowns need a new place to retire too!
that’s rich considering the NY Slimes has been caught lying through their teeth on a regular basis. readership is down,ad revenue is down over 300%, hundreds of reporters fired, close to bankruptcy. you need another source, no one in NY City reads this rag anymore, its only good when you need the motorcycle oil changed. Liberal Carlos Sims from Mexico purchased 50% of stock. it is going down the tubes like the Postal Circus!
I don’t trust the Demo-rats to correct anything. Amazon is taking advantage of the USPS and Amazon is “priority one” with upper level management because they are getting huge bonuses off all the extra work the clerks and carriers have to do handling Amazon.
Wait until he privatizes, and cut your wages and retirement,
gee,you really do know nothing
They should be charging Amazon an environmental impact fee of at least $.50 per package. Where do they think those tens of millions of boxes are going?
Into the recycle bin.