In the coming months you may notice you are paying more for shipping your online orders than ever before. That’s because the United States Post Office may be changing what they charge e-commerce companies like Amazon and Walmart to ship.
This news comes after a report was released by the USPS Task Force earlier this week. The Task Force was put in place in April of this year after President Donald Trump made an executive order to help determine why the USPS was failing and losing billions of dollars.
“The USPS is on an unsustainable financial path which poses significant financial risk to American taxpayers,” said United States Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin in press release. “President Trump tasked us with conducting a thorough evaluation of the USPS, and today’s report contains achievable recommendations that fulfill the President’s goal of placing the USPS on a path to sustainability, while protecting taxpayers from undue financial burdens and providing them with necessary mail services.”
