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President Trump is entering his sixth day in a row without any appearances in public, but he took some time out of his morning Thursday to sound off about his "concerns with
Amazon." Central to the president's ire (aside from the fact that Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, who also owns the "failing" _Washington Post_) is that Amazon uses
"our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.)." As _Axios_ reported Thursday, this is not actually true. "It's been explained to [Trump]
in multiple meetings that his perception is inaccurate and that the post office actually makes a ton of money from Amazon," one person in the know said. Last year, Trump aired a similar
complaint on Twitter: "Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages,
making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer?" he wondered. _Vox_ dug into the question and found that while the USPS is "bleeding money," its parcel service is
actually one arm that is "doing okay." SUBSCRIBE TO THE WEEK Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. SUBSCRIBE & SAVE
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news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. (_Atlas_) While the Post Office likely does cut deals with Amazon, _Vox_ adds in
conclusion that "Amazon doesn't need the USPS. The same isn't necessarily true for the USPS." _Quartz_'s own analysis found "Amazon and the broader e-commerce
sector aren't what's ailing the USPS. They just might be keeping it afloat." _Axios_ notes that some post offices in America have even added Sunday delivery because
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