Soon after taking office in 2017, President Donald Trump seized on the US Postal Service as an emblem of the bloated bureaucracy. They explained that this was untrue and that the Postal Service actually benefited from Amazon's business. He does support a smaller infusion of US$13.91 billion (NZ$19.85 billion) for the Postal Service, according to a White House official. Trump's fury with the Postal Service and mail-in balloting has become something of an obsession in recent weeks. "In the 245 years of the Postal Service, no one has seen political attacks like this," said James O'Rourke, a professor of management at the University of Notre Dame who specialises in the Postal Service.

Source: Stuff August 17, 2020 05:10 UTC