Do you see the clear and present danger of Amazon's  Empire on the horizon ?  

http://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/02/how-amazon-will-win-the-tax-war-with-trump.html

One thing I know is that the wanna be Pornstar is fucking things up alright.  And guess what his dumbass 35% is so dumb and full of hate that they still don't get it- and they never will.

Somebody got to stop this fool before he destroy and sell out America.If you think Bush crashing the economy culminating in 2007/08 was bad ,just wait till this douchebag is done with it.It's gonna be a train wreck.

You might want to google the losses Bezos has suffered recently you idiot. He's lost billions.

6 bankruptcies. But I'd put my money on a guy like Bezos as a better business man.

Putin is so proud of what he has accomplished.  If he accepts Spanky’s invitation, will you be invited to the lick fest as well?

If Trump lost billions, he'd be broke. If Bezos lost billions, he'd still have billions left over!

Before running around calling people idiots, you may just want to do a little googling yourself!

If you're nice I'll let you wear a little hat and drive me there.

I will believe it when you hand me the little hat and the keys to your  Lada.

Actually, Amazon pays the USPS a negotiated rate that they agreed to.  If Amazon left, the USPS operating deficit would be even larger.

I don’t know that what he spewed about this is as much of a lie as it is him being a complete idiot.  I guess he thought the Postal Service was a bunch of guys driving cute little trucks to provide his infantile level of entertainment.  He does still have a baby mobile hanging over his bed after all.  

Shepard Smith calls out Trump's lying bs again on air.

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Do you believe it's good business practice for the USPS to charge Amazon over a dollar less per package delivery  
than the market rate?  

 Why should Amazon get preferential treatment from the USPS  while Amazon is in the business of destroying other successful businesses with  their enormous size and ability to charge less than competitors, because of their monopolistic tactics and massive power?  

 When Amazon sends thousands of  brick and mortar store competition  in America into bankruptcy and closed doors, Amazon will be happy, how about you?  

Amazon preaches  about diversity when in practice Amazon employs  a disproportionately large number of its black and Hispanic employees in  low skill jobs.

 I believe Amazon is a clear and present danger to America and free enterprise.

If you don't support American workers, continue saving your quarters by buying your products through Amazon.

 I am not surprised German laborers recognize  the danger of Amazon monopoly while Americans sit by reveling in their ignorance.  

 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-workers-in-germany-italy-protest-for-wage-hikes/

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Monumental dolt? Good one.

How about 'monumental mingebag' so it rhymes well?

Was anybody here alive before email when 3rd Class Junk Mail filled our mailboxes?  The bulk mailers paid a fraction of the first class rate but the USPS actually made a bigger profit from 3rd Class Mail that subsidized the other rates and kept 1st Class prices lower, for a while.  
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I don't know the current rules, but you need to meet certain criteria to get the lower rates. Things like pre-weighed and pre-paid (to the USPS doesn't have to do that step); pre-sorting by zip (so the USPS doesn't have to do that step); I will guess having your shipments pre-palletized is another requirement these days (so the USPS doesn't have to do that) and maybe even pre-loaded onto semi-trailers to be transferred directly to USPS cabs (so the USPS doesn't have to unload and reload).  I would guess that the contracts probably also are linked to a minimum amount of biz that must be met (so the USPS can acquire and allocate resources).  
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I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure I have seen small, local USPS trucks delivering packages but they were marked "Operated by Joe's Delivery Service for the USPS." and stuff like that. In other words, the USPS isn't adding real jobs with real benefits (Postal Service Workers are unionized; UPS and FedEx and other drivers are probably unionized - Teamsters?); the USPS is outsourcing local deliveries to small private companies that are probably paying minimum wage to the guys out there delivering USPS packages.  
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I don't know for sure, but I will guess that the USPS profit on Amazon and other big bulk shippers is higher than on standard first class letters and parcels.
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Please correct me if I am wrong.

Amazon deliveries are a short term win for the USPS leading to major business losses across America  if Amazon monopoly is not stifled.  
 http://www.visualcapitalist.com/extraordinary-size-amazon-one-chart/
 
 Unbridled Amazon Empire will lead to massive bankruptcies of brick and mortar stores, monopoly control of E commerce, bankruptcy for  UPS and Fed Ex,  low wages for Amazon warehouse and distribution center employees, along with drastically increasing unemployment across our country.    
 http://www.freightwaves.com/news/2017/8/1/amazons-sweetheart-deal-with-the-usps

   On the bright side, if Amazons monopolies continue unchecked, in the not so distant future,  dilapidated  Malls close to Amazon distribution centers will be rehabbed into  cheap  housing for Amazon employees.

It's called capitalism and free market Quad.
The USA supports that idea over communism.
Just because Trump is acting like a communist bitch, does not make him right!

I'd wager big time if Bezos didn't have his tongue stuck up Obama's bung hole for eight years Amazon would have received monopoly scrutiny under the corrupt Obama administration.
 

Like most dictators would, Obama turned his cheek and stayed on his knees for his big time supporter, Bezos.  
http://www.ibtimes.com/obamas-latest-executive-order-designed-break-monopolies-boost-market-competition-2354605

  I understand  why so many lefties support Amazon's monopoly quest.  
  Most communists are happy with monopolies as long as their plate is full of cheap food.  
   
I realize why the real  communist hypocrites don't  feel a bit of apathy toward Amazon when they show over five billion in US profits while not paying  a dime in Federal tax.  
 The only thing communist lefties  enjoy more than cheap food, free food.  

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/as-trump-tweets-amazon-seeks-to-expand-its-business-empire/ar-AAvwRl8?ocid=spartanntp

The corrupt Obama administration is starting to feel the pressure....and not a dick up their asses but the watchdog groups finding more and more about how corrupt they truly were.....it's starting at the DOJ and can't wait to see where it leads........and just think, Holder is thinking about running for President.

Bwahahahahahahahahaha.

Quad another failed attempted by you, trying to bash Obama.
Also it's nothing wrong with Amazon and what they are doing with there business.
The real problem, is the mentally unstable baby in White House!

So the Obama White House had no major scandals.
The GOP tried really hard to find something, but failed.
We all know why, you wanted to point out Obama and Holder too.

Trump on the other hand has some real problems!

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The article does say that Amazon (and others) are actually paying less than the actual cost of delivery and that they are, essentially, subsidized by the USPS. I thought that there was a Congressional mandate in the 1980s that the USPS had to be or become self-supporting and adjust (Congressionally approved) postage rates and fees to achieve that. I guess I was wrong!  
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But I also thought that ePackets from China were subsidized by the CHINESE government. Wrong again. ePacket is paid for by the USPS (as required by law)!  
http://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/11/05/how-the-usps-epacket-gives-postal-subsidies-to-chinese-e-commerce-merchants-to-ship-to-the-usa-cheap/#290e3b1b40ca
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I have purchased numerous small items from China, items that I couldn't even find from a US source, and only had to pay 50 cents to a few dollars for the items AND I got free shipping.  If I then wanted to send the same item to someone else in the US, it would cost me several dollars in USPS shipping + tracking + new envelope (hell -- even just a new, clean, large manila envelope is around 50 cents).  
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The USPS is an independent agency of the Executive Branch of government, e.g., Trump. Will Trump "executive order" away ePackets or the package delivery subsidies? No. Because he doesn't have the power to do so.
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I am not a fan of the Big Box (Walmart, Target, Home Depot, etc.) stores that came in and wiped out local businesses. I am no longer a fan of Amazon that is making things worse. I used to be able to go into any of several local bookstores and they would special order books for me, sometimes reluctantly, and I'd get them 10, 14, 30 ... days later. I confess that I also fell in love with Amazon right away (I guess I'm a charter member   ) and started buying my "special order" books from them while buying other books "off the shelf" locally.  Almost all of those local book stores are now dead and gone. Sic transit gloria mundi. RIP. I am sorry. ;-(

The end of small retail businesses was predicted around 150 years ago when Sears Roebuck first sent out its mail order catalog.  That was the birth of direct marketing.  Many small general stores realized that if they handled the shipping and receiving end of things, they could make money.  

Amazon is just the natural of that.  There is a large segment of small retailers that sell on and delivered through Amazon, but not actually sole by Amazon itself.  

This keeps 10s of thousands of people employed.   Spanky is too stupid to realize that this makes him look good.