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Trump Must Reject USPS’ Electric Boogaloo

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 12/24/2024 1:19:35 PM

The United States Postal Service is bleeding red ink. America’s mail carrier lost an astounding $9.5 billion in fiscal 2024 and expects to lose an additional $60 billion to $70 billion by 2030. It certainly hasn’t helped that the agency is spending $9.6 billion on a vehicle procurement plan that includes 66,000 electric vehicles. These vehicles are two to three times more expensive than their conventional counterparts, but that has somehow not deterred the USPS. Agency leadership has even convinced Congress to spend $3 billion of taxpayer money on this nonsensical “deal.”

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Reply 1 - Posted by: snakeoil 12/24/2024 1:27:10 PM (No. 1860594)
Not to go off topic but the only snail mail I want are birthday and Christmas cards. This is the 21st Century. Why are people still licking stamps. Instead of spending a fortune on EVs I wish they make a video for letter carriers on How to Close the Lid on a Mailbox.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: WV.Hillbilly 12/24/2024 2:37:02 PM (No. 1860621)
Trump also needs to get the USPS to make their carriers wear real uniforms again. The ones who deliver mail in my area look like the biggest bunch of slobs in the country. I thought a homeless guy was going through mailboxes in the neighborhood but it was just an slovenly ununiformed USPS employee.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Lazyman 12/24/2024 3:16:27 PM (No. 1860643)
Another Federal agency that should be disbanded despite the impact on their dyslexic workers.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Rotten in Denmark 12/24/2024 3:18:07 PM (No. 1860645)
I agree, we need uniforms again. Maybe out in the rural areas where mail is delivered from vehicles, no so much…
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Reply 5 - Posted by: danu 12/24/2024 6:04:23 PM (No. 1860714)
i want ben franklin's edifice to succeed. but, they need serious housecleaning, and political neutrality. for years, they screeched about losses due to emails; however, our christmas cards back east took 3 weeks to arrive. they have some 'splaining to do.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Venturer 12/24/2024 6:11:52 PM (No. 1860716)
USPS is buying EV's because the dipstick we had at the White House forced them to.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: anniebc 12/24/2024 9:45:13 PM (No. 1860774)
"Electric Boogaloo"
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Reply 8 - Posted by: JimBob 12/24/2024 11:58:59 PM (No. 1860805)
It seems to me that the stop-start-stop-start of a mail delivery route would be a near-perfect application for a hybrid vehicle.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: franq 12/25/2024 8:59:51 AM (No. 1860909)
#8 makes a point, but you have to consider the extra weight of the batteries too. Maybe that would not impact payload. Let Elon figure it out (tongue in cheek). I do have to wonder about his vested interests, while being in the Trump inner circle.
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