President Trump doesn't like Amazon's deal with the USPS. He recently repeated an estimate that the US mail loses $1.47 every time Amazon uses it to send a package.
The Postal Serviceis losing money. ButJosh Barro of Business Insider discovered Trump's assertion that Amazon isn't paying enough to use the USPS isbased on faulty data. And a lack of understanding of how the Postal Service works.
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