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poplglop t1_j12kjnh wrote

Listen man, I work for the government and there is no fucking way all 232,000 US postal trucks are going to be converted into EVs by 2026.

The actual article says all NEW PURCHASES of postal vehicles will be EVs by 2026, which imo still sounds far fetched, but makes a little more sense.

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Seacabbage t1_j12qqc5 wrote

I was gonna say, there’s thousands of those shitbox mail trucks on the road that look like they were built in 1980. No way they are all getting replaced in 4 years

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windsorHaze t1_j12wfwi wrote

Those shit boxes are called LLVs long life vehicles and they’ve been on the road for about 34-35 years ish, or so, I’ve been told.

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Seacabbage t1_j12wzfh wrote

I think they run on spite and hatred at this point. Kinda like any used Nissan Altima

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mvms t1_j147k7n wrote

Am mail carrier, can confirm spite and hatred.

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aitorbk t1_j13gi2z wrote

Also means new contracts.. they have a long long contract with some incompetent ppl to make them extremely inefficient vehicles at great cost. And they are gas.

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CitationX_N7V11C t1_j14zkjk wrote

You do realize that just because you say something it doesn't make it true, right? The Grumman LLV that the Post Office still mostly uses is up there with the B-52 in longest lasting government procurements. Not to mention that I don't know if you really know who Grumman used to be. One thing it definitely was NOT was incompetent. Even with all it's flaws the longevity of the fleet is a huge success.

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aitorbk t1_j151rfn wrote

I perfectly know about the amazing heritage of Grumman, plus the issues that the LLV being long in the tooth is causing to the Post Office, including not being appropriate for all weathers. A mixed bag, good and bad.

But we are certainly not talking about the LLVs, we are talking about the either incredible incompetence of assigning the contract to Oskosh or also quite surprising ammount of corruption in doing so.
I suggest you read about how they won the contract for electric vehicles while not delivering them and increased the weight to avoid minimum efficiency etc etc. All on Transits that could have been bought for a fraction of the cost.

But this is UpliftingNews, so the good news is, new contracts will be 100% electric, .

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SkyNightZ t1_j13elkn wrote

Yeah, i watched a video a while back about the procurement process for these electric vehicles and it seemed like some dude essentially abusing the system and getting government contracts to produce ineffective vehicles vs converting off the shelf solutions.

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