Comment / Analysis: 'Cream-skimming, not divorce' – Amazon vs USPS

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In a nutshell: The world’s biggest e-commerce shipper discovers that replacing 33,000 post offices is harder than disrupting them.

For months, the conventional wisdom was that Amazon was preparing to walk away from the US Postal Service (USPS), or at least drag it to the curb.

The reality emerged earlier this week, and looks rather different. Amazon and USPS have struck a tentative last-mile package-handling agreement that reduces a previously threatened 66% volume cut to a manageable 20% reduction, ...