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The USPS got as far as drafting a press release promising to send 650 million masks, five to every household, touting its "unique" ability to help in the pandemic.
It never happened.
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It never happened.
The story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/17/usps-trump-coronavirus-amazon-foia/
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Nearly 10,000 emails obtained via FOIA -- thanks to the work of @weareoversight -- also show USPS retained Stefan Passantino to offer legal advice. Passantino is a a former deputy WH counsel now serving on a group that could challenge 2020 election results https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/17/usps-trump-coronavirus-amazon-foia/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy...
The documents also show USPS worried about Treasury trying to take over agency operations in response to its financial woes, so much so they hired a law firm, which produced a legal brief arguing why such an action was "illegal" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/17/usps-trump-coronavirus-amazon-foia/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy...
USPS records also offer new detail into Amazon& #39;s biz with the mail agency -- Amazon drove roughly $3.9 billion in revenue, and $1.6 billion in profit, for USPS in fiscal & #39;19. The Postal Service delivered 1.54 billion packages on Amazon’s behalf last year https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/17/usps-trump-coronavirus-amazon-foia/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy...
At one point in April, USPS circulated a memo that fact checked some of Trump& #39;s attacks on Amazon and his calls to raise rates. In many agency documents, mail leaders discussed how high rates would "cede" Amazon biz to competitors https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/17/usps-trump-coronavirus-amazon-foia/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy...
What& #39;s the takeaway?
@AREvers: “I see President Trump’s fingerprints all over...It’s clear from the president’s public comments, and the actions of his administration, he has a major agenda for the post office — and we see a lot of it in black and white” https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/17/usps-trump-coronavirus-amazon-foia/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy...
@AREvers: “I see President Trump’s fingerprints all over...It’s clear from the president’s public comments, and the actions of his administration, he has a major agenda for the post office — and we see a lot of it in black and white” https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/17/usps-trump-coronavirus-amazon-foia/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy...
