Post office blames U.S. government — not Amazon — for billion-dollar loss
May 11, 2018 at 12:05 PM EDT
The U.S. Postal Service placed most of the blame for the $1.3 billion it lost in its fiscal second quarter on the government’s “inflexible” policy, and some of it on inflation and a decline in first class mail, but it did not blame any of it on delivery deals made with customers, like Amazon.com Inc.