President Trump has demanded that the U.S. Postal Service charge Amazon twice as much to ship packages, even personally pressuring the postmaster general on multiple occasions, The Washington Post reported Friday.
Megan Brennan, the postmaster general, has had several meetings with Trump, sources said, and pushed back on his demand by explaining that the Amazon-Post Office relationship is complex and that the USPS can't just back out of a contract. Trump has claimed that Amazon is costing the USPS billions of dollars, insisting that taxpayers are paying the price in an unfair deal.
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