Posted on 04/11/2025 3:36:56 PM PDT by Twotone
In three years, the project has managed to deliver 93 out of 55,000 vehicles.
Return to sender.
That's the message two Republican lawmakers have regarding the Biden's administration's $3 billon contract for 55,000 electric postal trucks.
That's enough to replace a quarter of the USPS fleet. So far, the Wisconsin-based defense contractor Oshkosh has delivered a whopping 93 vehicles.
At at that rate, they should be done by the time we open the first post office on Mars.
Par for the course for any government EV initiative. As are the reported cost overruns. Fortunately, we've entered the DOGE age. And two members of the caucus — Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Representative Michael Cloud (R-Texas) — are demanding your money back with the "Return to Sender Act."
The act seeks to rescind the entirety of the $3 billion, allocated under the Biden administration’s 2022 “Inflation Reduction Act.”
That's the same IRA Kamala Harris loved to brag about on the 2024 campaign trail. After all, she cast the tiebreaking Senate vote to pass it. And now she doesn't mind admitting that the whole thing is really just a backdoor enactment of the Green New Deal, which pushes for a massive shift to zero-emission transport.
The agreement with Oshkosh called for an initial order of 50,000 electric delivery trucks over a three-year period that started in 2022, meaning they’re way behind schedule, with less than 0.2% delivered by late 2024.
And here we thought EVs were more efficient.
“Biden’s EV postal fleet is lost in the mail," said Ernst, who is also DOGE Caucus chair. "The order needs to be canceled with the unspent money returned to sender, the taxpayers. I am defunding this billion-dollar boondoggle to stamp out waste in Washington. Tax dollars should always be treated with first-class priority.”
Cloud echoed these sentiments, highlighting reports suggesting that the price per truck has jumped from $55,000 to over $70,000.
Oshkosh is believed to be struggling with the production of the electric Postal Service vehicles, with insiders claiming the contractor is uncertain it can build the trucks effectively under the terms of the former Biden government’s contract. Furthermore, rising costs have compounded the project’s delays.
The Washington Post reported that Oshkosh’s CEO expressed satisfaction with the project’s status, stating the company is “really happy where we are.” However, internal sources revealed challenges, with one individual commenting, “We don’t know how to build a damn truck.”
A USPS spokesperson defended the initiative, stating that fleet modernization is central to the Postal Service's “Delivering for America” plan — a 2021 strategy to revamp the struggling USPS with new tech and a greener fleet to meet federal emission cuts by 2030.
The USPS reiterated the commitment to environmentally sustainable vehicles, aligning with financial and operational considerations, and affirmed that deliveries of new vehicles remain on schedule.
As the “Return to Sender Act” progresses, it will serve as a focal point for discussions on fiscal responsibility and the role of oversight in government-funded initiatives. This fight isn’t just about mail trucks — it’s a test case for whether Biden-era green spending can survive a new wave of Republican oversight, especially with the 2026 midterms looming.
Simple...
Run the credit card and/or documents through a shredder...
Then confiscate any stored/banked/bribed unused funds...
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.
GREAT!
I was thinking about 🤔🤔🤔 how many years that would be
Different companies, based in the same Wisconsin town.
“internal sources revealed challenges ...”
“challenges”, “issues”, “headwinds” - three great euphemisms.
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.
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.
Ok thanks
Hopefully also going after virtually all of any money given to them over 3 years...
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.
More winning. thanks Doge.
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.
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.
“Why didn’t a company that had experience building electric vehicles get the contract?”
Is that a rhetorical question?
Newman!
Unfortunately the LLVs are catching on fire about an average of one a week. They need to be replaced.
They build very sturdy clothing for children.
“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.”
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