Summary

USPS plans to continue its EV transition despite resistance from Trump’s team.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy affirmed the $3 billion electrification effort, funded by last year’s climate bill, as “business sense,” with 75% of the fleet targeted for electrification by 2026.

Trump’s team aims to cancel contracts, favoring gas-powered vehicles.

USPS has ordered 66,000 EVs by 2028, including vehicles from Oshkosh and Ford.

While critics argue against high costs, USPS maintains that legislative action would be required to halt its EV plans, which aim to modernize its 217,000-vehicle fleet.

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    It’s still amazing that this South Carolina Republican would screw over his own constituents. For what benefit? To show loyalty to Trump? GOP is all about party over country.

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    I wonder if people understand what a massive threat this is. The destruction of the United States Postal Service would be catastrophic. These private companies that are circling around here rely on the Postal Service. A lot of them only do the final leg of deliveries, if even that. They rely on the postal service for a lot of the in-between work. Meaning of the Postal Service collapses as they seem to be trying to cause then they’ll be no one to cover the in-between Services except them. Meaning their prices will Skyrocket.

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    To anyone thinking they agree with DeJoy allow me to rephrase this:

    USPS maintains that legislative action would be required to halt its EV plans wink wink, nudge nudge

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      At the same time, laws can be challenged by blue states in friendly courts, tying things up. That’s even if it passes. The house is down to 5 seats, many of them were mighty, mighty close. They will fuck us often mind you, but the mid hanging fruit will be hard to pluck. Rolling this back will affect 1000 jobs in Tennessee, so suddenly you have opposition in the GOP.

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    The only sane thing DeJoy wants to do. The USPS fleet is grossly outdated and electric vehicles make perfect engineering sense for distribution routes with lots of stop/start and idling. It’ll lower their overall maintenance budget by tens of millions easy.

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      It’s happening despite DeJoy. He tried to commission ICEs with even worse mpg than the current fleet. Congress said hell no

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        despite DeJoy

        Exactly this. Scrapping of automated sorting machines and reversal of fleet electrification plans were the first two things he did back in 2020.

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          More like Democrats were able to stop republicans from purposely making government inefficient.

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      This is the weirdest timeline. Here I am agreeing with DeJoy, who I’ve advocated be removed from office, literally for YEARS. smh.

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    Because Congress forced it to, after DeJoy tried to lock in an order for millions of 4 mpg shitmobiles

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    Ah yes, DeJoy is suddenly the defender of all things right with USPS because they held a sham “grilling” in the House. Please, give me a break.

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      He’s just another CEO tbh, but the only shred of credit I’m willing to give him is that he’s not a profit ghoul by total choice, that would be the bill passed in 1970 in retaliation for the largest wildcat strike in US history. Nixon put the USPS into billions of debt.

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        He’s a self serving piece of shit that made fat donations to republicans and got installed with no prior experience to serve Trump’s agenda of destroying USPS. His leadership have caused medicine deliveries to fail, food packages to expire, and put mail-in voting at risk. I won’t let this congressional performance and the media’s complicity in it white wash his record.

        https://www.citizen.org/article/guaranteed-delivery-dejoys-post-office-corruption/

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          He’s a self serving piece of shit that made fat donations to republicans and got installed with no prior experience to serve Trump’s agenda

          Like I said, just another CEO. I’m glad you added some context for this, because he’s definitely a huge piece of shit tearing apart the fabric of a functional government.

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    The platform is drivetrain agnostic anyway, as the ICE engines wear out the chassis will accept the BEV drivetrain.

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    I still think of the current LLVs as the “new” postal vehicles despite the newest of them having been built in 1994. When I was a kid they drove the cute little Jeeps.

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    Do they have to make the mail trucks look so … dumb? I’m all for shifting to electric but those look ridiculous.

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      They may look odd but the drivers love them miles above the current vehicles and they were built with safety in mind first. So yes, they look like that on purpose

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        I can see how that deep windshield would help navigate tight spots / ensure you can see pets and children, low retaining walls, curbs, etc. These trucks mostly need to navigate surface streets and unfamiliar residential which can have tight spaces like long and narrow gravel driveways / access roads.

        Makes total sense to me. Hope they have backup cameras too

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            I think it looks neat, and we’ll all get use to it just like we got use to calling a Nintendo console a “Wii.”

            The unique proportions are to maximize visibility and safety. It’s not just trying to be odd to make a statement or to differentiate it.