The Post Office

The U.S. Postal Service has leverage to negotiate higher delivery rates for Amazon. Amazon is its largest customer, but that's because Amazon must rely on it for deliveries to low-margin and rural addresses.

A comment on "The Postal Service is subsidizing Jeff Bezos' quest to turn Amazon into a delivery machine that competes with UPS and FedEx -- but USPS can't break up with Bezos" (R. Premack). ​

"USPS 2016 ProMaster" by Atomic Taco. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

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