U.S. Postal Service to Spend Almost $10 Billion for Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure

[Elderberry]

Legal Insurrection by Mary Chastain December 20, 2022

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will spend $9.6 billion on 66,000 electric trucks and their infrastructure in the name of climate change.

Postal officials’ plans call for buying 60,000 “Next Generation Delivery Vehicles” from defense contractor Oshkosh, of which 45,000 will be electric, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told The Washington Post. The agency will also purchase 46,000 models from mainstream automakers, of which 21,000 will be electric.

    The Postal Service will spend $9.6 billion on the vehicles and associated infrastructure, officials said, including $3 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act, President Biden and congressional Democrats’ landmark climate, health-care and tax law.

DeJoy boasted the agency will buy “zero-emissions delivery trucks almost exclusively” by 2026.

Where is the postal service getting almost $10 billion to buy these vehicles?

Well, a bill passed in February forgave much of the postal service’s $63 billion debt and gave the agency a $107 billion bailout.

The postal service lost almost $87 billion between 2006 and 2010.

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[The_Reader_David]

I hope they plan to deploy them in dense urban areas:  the only place they really are a positive due to the reduction exposure of human beings to air pollution by moving emissions to sparsely populated areas and replacing emissions from gasoline, which include lots of unburned hydrocarbons with the carbon dioxide and water from burning natural gas.

EV's are a urbanite delusion, rather than a leftist delusion per se.  Out here in the Great Plains, we'll stick with gasoline, maybe burning less by using hybrid vehicles, but definitely gasoline (or diesel).

[GtHawk]

And to pay for it our postage stamps will only go up to what, .75 cents? And that infrastructure, will it include large diesel fueled generators at each post office for when the grid goes down? And how many diesel trucks towing diesel generators to charge the EV mail trucks that run out of juice on route?

I sure would like to know how many elected and postal officials made stock purchases in the companies supply the EV's and infrastructure prior to the announcement.

[berdie]

Great idea! They are going broke. Their delivery success has driven many to the internet. Postage prices will drive even more away. So let's go out and spend 10 billion on EVs!!  I truly think the Pony Express would be a better option.

[sneakypete]

The Postal Service didn't decide to do anything,other than follow the orders given to the Post Master by some political creature with a percentage of the profits coming his or her way.

The Post Master can ASK for anything he wants,but he is told what to do and what to say. He is a political appointee that can be replaced in the blink of any eye if he steps out of line.