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Return to sender: DOGE cancels Biden's $3 billion electric postal truck order
The Blaze ^ | April 2, 2025 | Lauren fix

Posted on 04/11/2025 3:36:56 PM PDT by Twotone

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To: Thank You Rush
"HOW does she do that?"

Simple...
Run the credit card and/or documents through a shredder...
Then confiscate any stored/banked/bribed unused funds...

21 posted on 04/11/2025 4:12:19 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: Sacajaweau

The heck of it is that a hybrid mail truck makes all kinds of sense. So naturally the Dem government decided we must have all-electric mail trucks, which makes no sense at all.


22 posted on 04/11/2025 4:18:16 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SaveFerris
In three years, the project has managed to deliver 93 out of 55,000 vehicles.

So they felt secure that they had guaranteed business for the next 1,666 years.
23 posted on 04/11/2025 4:25:24 PM PDT by Colinsky
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To: Twotone

GREAT!


24 posted on 04/11/2025 4:27:51 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Colinsky

I was thinking about 🤔🤔🤔 how many years that would be


25 posted on 04/11/2025 4:35:53 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: xp38
Same company or almost the same name?

Different companies, based in the same Wisconsin town.

26 posted on 04/11/2025 4:37:34 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Twotone

“internal sources revealed challenges ...”

“challenges”, “issues”, “headwinds” - three great euphemisms.


27 posted on 04/11/2025 4:48:34 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: xp38

Most fire and ambulance trucks are produced by Pierce. As are another of military use light armored vehicles. They are a big employer in Appleton, Oshkosh, Menasha, Greenville.They also do upgrades and overhaul-refurbishment. Its a region that still has welders, machinists, body panel fabricators, pump machinists, millwrights, and electricians. A gift from the closed paper mills. Lots of hard to find industrial talent. Much of the talent base is family-multigenerational.


28 posted on 04/11/2025 5:07:55 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Twotone

I wonder if the science gurus of the Biden Crime Family administration included the cost of installing charging stations at each post office facility? You know, those science gurus who failed second grade ‘see and say science’, failed their studies classes, and somehow got gubmit jobs. The same ones who spent billions for nationwide charging stations and managed to get one built?
Eff them, their families, their houses, their post cards, their clothing, and their chewing gum. And may the flies of a thousand camels fly into their Starbucks whatevers.


29 posted on 04/11/2025 5:09:55 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Yo-Yo

Ok thanks


30 posted on 04/11/2025 5:11:19 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Twotone

Hopefully also going after virtually all of any money given to them over 3 years...


31 posted on 04/11/2025 5:20:06 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Twotone

Delivered 53 trucks out of the 55,000 ordered.

And those billions spent for building the arrays of EV charging stations were cut off by Trump——those stations were on the way./S
Washington Post, Mar 29, 2024 — President Biden’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations in two years ... he has long vowed to build 500,000....

A few years ago someone found that some Pony Express deliveries were faster than the current Postal Service does for the same places.
The excuse? Routes covered by the Pony Express were geographically limited and had smaller total items to deliver.
and couldn’t have been expanded to the whole country.

53 trucks and 7 EV charging stations.
Trump shut down that government juggernaut.


32 posted on 04/11/2025 5:26:38 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Twotone

More winning. thanks Doge.


33 posted on 04/11/2025 5:31:20 PM PDT by exPBRrat
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To: Twotone

USPS has the largest fleet of vehicles in the U.S. They should operate on natural gas for about $2 a gallon less than gasoline.


34 posted on 04/11/2025 5:34:01 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: Twotone

They forgot to factor in the R&D needed to develop a one-off, specific need vehicle intended soley for gubmint use.

They couldn’t just slap an off the shelf van body on EV motor and chassis.


35 posted on 04/11/2025 5:36:10 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: maro

“Why didn’t a company that had experience building electric vehicles get the contract?”

Is that a rhetorical question?


36 posted on 04/11/2025 6:52:24 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
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To: Twotone

Newman!


37 posted on 04/11/2025 7:18:06 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: Valpal1

Unfortunately the LLVs are catching on fire about an average of one a week. They need to be replaced.

https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2020/7/7/21316263/postal-service-trucks-everywhere-are-catching-fire-and-have-been-for-years/


38 posted on 04/12/2025 9:19:48 AM PDT by sloanrb
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To: dljordan

They build very sturdy clothing for children.


39 posted on 04/12/2025 9:38:23 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too. 😁 " - Robert Conquest )
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To: Twotone

“In three years, the project has managed to deliver 93 out of 55,000 vehicles.”

Fraud from the get-go. Blatant lack of capacity, money probably spent on “studies,” and graft back to the “Big Guy.”


40 posted on 04/12/2025 9:43:38 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too. 😁 " - Robert Conquest )
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