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BumRushDaShow

(127,324 posts)
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 06:34 PM Oct 2019

Postmaster general who was target of Trump's ire announces retirement

Source: Washington Post

U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan plans to retire in January, officials said Wednesday, following months of complaints from President Trump that the Postal Service was losing too much money and should be charging retail giant Amazon more for package delivery.

Trump had told aides repeatedly earlier this year that he would like to remove Brennan from her post, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. But officials on Wednesday characterized Brennan’s departure as a normal retirement and said she would assist in the search for a replacement.

Brennan, a former letter carrier who is the first woman to head the postal agency, had resisted Trump’s push to double the rates charged to Amazon and other firms to ship packages — a drastic move that could cost the companies and post office customers billions of dollars.
Trump has repeatedly rained invective on Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, and on his separate ownership of The Washington Post, which Trump regularly accuses of reporting “Fake News.”

Brennan had explained to the president in multiple conversations that he cannot undo Amazon’s contracts without a regulatory commission review, and had also argued that the relationship benefits both Amazon and the Postal Service. In a statement released by the Postal Service, Brennan thanked the men and women with whom she had worked. “I have had the privilege to work with you over the course of my 33-year career,” she said. “You embody the spirit of public service, you earn the trust of the American people every day, and you continually reinforce my reverence for this institution and my abiding belief in our mission.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/postmaster-general-who-was-target-of-trumps-ire-announces-retirement/2019/10/16/608e6286-c51d-11e9-850e-c0eef81a5224_story.html



Like a bull in a china closet. Destroying everything in sight.
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Postmaster general who was target of Trump's ire announces retirement (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Oct 2019 OP
It's methodical orangecrush Oct 2019 #1
Now you will REALLY see USPS rate increases bucolic_frolic Oct 2019 #2
Thank you Susan Collins for destroying the US Postal Service jpak Oct 2019 #3
Who benefits from Trump ruining the postal service? IronLionZion Oct 2019 #4
who benefits from him and the repukes ruining anything? Kali Oct 2019 #5
Private companies are always willing to $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$erve bucolic_frolic Oct 2019 #6
They would have to charge extra to get to more remote rural areas IronLionZion Oct 2019 #7
Who runs FedEx and UPS? jmowreader Oct 2019 #8

bucolic_frolic

(42,679 posts)
2. Now you will REALLY see USPS rate increases
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 06:59 PM
Oct 2019

He wants Amazon to pay more shipping costs. Probably try to give the job to Mulvaney or DeVos as a sideline. He's destroying mail order anything that involves USPS. Rate increases last fall were LARGE especially in view of low inflation and cheap energy. The public gets hosed everytime Trump opens his mouth.

jpak

(41,742 posts)
3. Thank you Susan Collins for destroying the US Postal Service
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 07:17 PM
Oct 2019

Trump is just delivering the coup de grace.

FU St. Petersburg Sue

Yup

IronLionZion

(45,262 posts)
4. Who benefits from Trump ruining the postal service?
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 07:38 PM
Oct 2019


Sounds like it would screw over a lot of rural Americans who depend on the postal service and won't be served by private companies. Those are his own supporters.

Kali

(54,990 posts)
5. who benefits from him and the repukes ruining anything?
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 08:34 PM
Oct 2019

they just don't care or are simply not able to see the actual picture.

bucolic_frolic

(42,679 posts)
6. Private companies are always willing to $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$erve
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 10:05 PM
Oct 2019

Pay up, or get no mail, and you MUST have a mailing address

IronLionZion

(45,262 posts)
7. They would have to charge extra to get to more remote rural areas
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 11:24 PM
Oct 2019

and those folks probably won't be willing or able to pay extra

jmowreader

(50,453 posts)
8. Who runs FedEx and UPS?
Thu Oct 17, 2019, 11:34 AM
Oct 2019

As to your assertion Trump’s move will “screw over a lot of rural Americans”...you are quite correct, but Trump doesn’t care about his supporters. Look what he did to the farmers.

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