USPS gets final signoff to order new delivery vehicles

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By DAVID SHARP

(AP) — The U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday it cleared the final regulatory hurdle to placing orders for next-generation mail vehicles — and getting some of them on delivery routes next year — despite pushback from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said the completion of an evaluation required by the National Environmental Policy Act is an important milestone for postal carriers who have soldiered on with overworked delivery trucks that went into service between 1987 to 1994.

The U.S. Postal Service’s fleet comprises more than 230,000 vehicles, including 190,000 local delivery vehicles that are due to be replaced.

“The men and women of the U.S. Postal Service have waited long enough for safer, cleaner vehicles,” DeJoy said in a statement.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-environment-postal-service-environmental-policy-4697b1ddc46a29875f3944951cf35b42

[cilla4progress]

1. So,

not electric, I take it?

[turbinetree]

2. So is it going to scabs or union members.......let me guess....and why is this POS still in power

[melm00se]

3. I believe UAW 578

is the local for Oshkosh Defense

[turbinetree]

4. What's the union in SC, they don't have one, if memory serves me correctly, they are building a

new place and will be hiring with scabs

[melm00se]

9. This where I was looking

https://uaw578.org/about-us

[yaesu]

5. Wonder if Congress can get involved to delay or a Biden EO?

[lagomorph777]

6. What a surprise; DeJoy has approved the purchase from his cronies.

When are the new board members coming in, and why should DOJ wait for his removal before prosecuting him?

[NCjack]

7. What happen to the various State investigations of NoJoy's tax manipulations to

have his private company make political contributions to GOP and get in return corporate bonuses?

[KS Toronado]

8. From the link..........

only 10% of the vehicles would be electric-powered under the Postal Service contract with the manufacturer,
Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Defense.

They should all be electric, the savings from not buying gasoline would probably pay for most of them.