President Trump doubled down on his claim that online retailer Amazon is costing the United States Postal Service billions of dollars in a Tuesday morning tweet, insisting that American taxpayers are paying the price in an unfair deal.
"I am right," Trump insisted, after his Monday tweet on the same topic was scrutinized. "P.O. leaders don't have a clue (or do they?)!" His claims were widely debunked after he implied that Amazon was to blame for brick-and-mortar stores closing and the Postal Service losing "A FORTUNE." The USPS did, in fact, lose $2.7 billion in 2017, reports PolitiFact, but not because it delivered packages for Amazon. On the contrary, parcel delivery deals with companies like Amazon accounted for $7 billion of the $19.5 billion in revenue last year.
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