Postal problems? Blame Bezos: prez

President Trump on Monday defended his postmaster general from claims that he’s undermining mail-in voting.

Louis DeJoy, who took over the US Postal Service in May, has been accused by Democrats of trying to scuttle voting by plucking mailboxes off streets, cutting overtime and axing late deliveries.

But Trump said in a morning TV appearance that the USPS’s biggest problem is dealing with e-behemoths like Amazon.

“One of the biggest problems — maybe the biggest problem with a post office — is Amazon. Amazon and other companies like it,” Trump said on “Fox & Friends.”

“They come in and they drop all their mail into a post office — not all of it but a big percentage of it — and they say, ‘Here, you deliver it, you stupid people, you deliver it.’ And it costs us every time they drop a package.”

Trump has been feuding with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post. He said the retail giant takes advantage of the USPS to deliver packages to remote corners of the country, sometimes at a loss.

“It costs us like $3 to deliver the package for them. Three dollars a package. We’re losing a fortune. I said, ‘You got to raise the rates’ . . . But Amazon, they build a big plant always near a post office, and then they take a lot of this mail into areas where they

It costs us like $3 to deliver the package for [Amazon]. Three dollars a package. We’re losing a fortune.

— President Trump, on the recent cost-cutting at the US Postal Service

could never go because the postal system is massive,” Trump said.

“And they drop packages into the post office by the thousands . . . and we lose $3 and $4 a package on average. We lose massive amounts of money, and I should raise the price. This guy’s supposed to be so wealthy. So raise the price. Let him pay for it.

“Why is the post office paying for delivery for Amazon and, in all fairness, for other services like that?”

The USPS issue is a major point of contention as the election nears amid the pandemic. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Monday found 47 percent of Joe Biden’s backers plan to vote by mail, compared with 11 percent of Trump fans.

The top postman, meanwhile, agreed to testify on Monday to the House oversight committee about the recent “cost-cutting” moves ahead of the first night of the Republican National Convention.

The timing was not lost on the president

“Why is Congress scheduled to meet (on Post Office) next Monday, during the Republican Convention, rather than now, while the Dems are having their Convention. They are always playing games,” he tweeted.

Accusations from Democrats have become increasingly fevered as activists rally around and camp out near ballot depositories.

Trump says he supports additional USPS funding in stalled coronavirus relief legislation.