This is another of those cases where there's something I very much dislike going on, but those making a big deal about this take it two steps too far with their criticisms so instead I'm stuck having to deal with those before appearing to agree with such nonsense.
No, I'm not in favor of a President mucking around with the private sector. The issue here is that he's mucking around with the private sector by changing up things within the federal government. If he's taking a broad action, if that action is within his purview (i'll be honest, I don't know about the Postal Service to know what area of government has more control over it), and it's for a legitimate reason (i.e. there's been internal government reviews and findings that discover that the business model that the USPS operates under breaks when it's used in the manner it's used by the various large scale shipment based retailers); that is reasonable. If his reasoning for it is that he just FEELS like it hurts brick and morter stores...So what? That's not a legitimate and reasonable reason to change things up with the USPS, it's not the place nor the purpose of the President to try and protect one type of business over another, especially based off gut feelings.
However, I can't get on board with the information we have that this is some kind of highly unethical attempt to punish a media outlet. The articles and posters are desperately trying to act like this is just about Amazon, but from the very first paragraph quoted: "double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon.com and other firms". If those other firms are not tied to the Washington Post and Amazon, but are rather simply other major mail order retailers, then the declaration of this being aimed specifically at punishing or in retaliation to the Washington Post is specious and assumptive at best while being presented as unquestionable fact.
Trump doing this specifically due to a vendetta against the Washington Post, and targetting Amazong singularly, would be an astounding piece of wrong doing that would have me furious and potentially calling for impeachment for unethical misuse of the office. However, it's being treated by some of these articles and some people as if that is absolutely, indisputably, what is happening here....and that's frankly not the case. And until there's actual evidence, not just rampant speculation by a frothing horde looking to pounce upon everything in the worst case possible without any attempt at thought or objectivity, I'm not going to join some zealotry fueled mob for Trumps head on this issue. What's more, those foolish enough to be hammering on about this bull**** simply actually give Trump cover for the actual problematic things he's done in this regard, because this stupid ****ery has to be dealt with first OR ends up getting the greater attention despite it being the political equivalent of gossip.
