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Posted on 07/16/2025 3:39:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — A Biden administration plan to create a “green” fleet of postal vehicles has churned out a mere 250 electric mail trucks in just over two years — after shelling out taxpayer funds meant to build thousands — leaving Republicans raging at the multibillion-dollar “boondoggle.”
The nearly $10 billion project — which called for more than 35,000 battery-powered US Postal Service (USPS) vehicles to be completed by September 2028 — was funded in part by $3 billion in funding from former President Joe Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
As of this month, the project is well behind schedule despite taxpayers forking over $1.7 billion — prompting Capitol Hill Republicans to try to rescind the remaining nearly $1.3 billion earmarked from the IRA.
“Biden’s multi-billion-dollar EV fleet for the USPS is lost in the mail and more than $1 billion is postmarked to order more,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) told The Post.
“I am working to cancel the order and return the money to the sender, the American people. The rescissions package is a great start, but Congress must keep its foot on the pedal and make DOGE a lifestyle by stamping out waste like this on a regular basis.”
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$6.8 Million per vehicle. Democrats.
I live in NY State...not anywhere near NY City. Plenty of corruption in Albany, NY over the years that have seen the State construct multi-million dollar buildings, only to see the deals that went along with those buildings fall apart, and the taxpayers left in the lurch. In Syracuse, NY Cuomo constructed a building to house a media archive. The company backed out of the deal, and the building was auctioned off for a dollar. Just recently, a bunch of lighting to the tune of $106 million that Cuomo ordered to light up the city’s bridges but were never installed, sold at auction for $383,000. And the ripoff artists get away Scott free. Which brings to mind the nuclear energy plant that’s going to be constructed in Dunkirk, NY. Will it ever be completed, and even if it is, somebody will be making mucho bucks from it.
Was this concept ever even tried? Say, Phoenix, and Fargo. I’m not persuaded these rechargeables would work for this application. Possibly Golf Carts for certain routes. Maybe.
Running?
You want them to run? That's extra.
Like Solyndra it was never feasible or possible ... it was a payoff to donors.
It seems that Noone in or around government has an ounce of integrity. Criminals.
Accelerating from a dead stop burns the most possible amount of battery energy. Guess what mail delivery trucks in local neighborhoods do?
Between the USPS and the Transportation Administration, that’s $16B for 250 trucks and 1 charging station.
$10 billion with 250 trucks built? Someone needs to launch a criminal investigation into this spending. Seriously. Everyone seems way to willing to let massive spending with no results go. The money was not burned. Someone got it to do something and they didn’t do it.
Ford is the winner in this.
My local mailman now drives an EV Ford Sprinter. He likes it in that it has A/C but he told me that the range is about 100 miles and he doesn’t drive aggressively.
Did you happen to ask him where he charges that EV? Did they install charging stations at the post office? I’m assuming there’s a maintenance contract the government made with Ford too. Since only $250 were made with $10 billion, are the rest going to be manufactured and used by the government, or will Ford return the remaining money to the government?
A bit of history: After WWII, Ford successfully sued the government to receive reparations for allied bomb damage to their car factories in Germany.
His mail truck gets charged at the Post Office.
This guy is not your normal govt employee. He may be reading this. He used to be a top sales guy for a steel company and decided to become a mailman. He carries dog cookies in his truck and all the dogs along his route are his best friends.
He also serves as a neighborhood watchman. If something looks out of place, he asks neighbors about what is going on.
Interesting career change. I know of people who work in the steel industry. It is often feast or famine.
Sounds like he can read, unlike the delivery people here. Can I get him to deliver my mail? I've lived in this apartment building for 25 years, and have been getting a newsletter from a Civil War group in N.C. for that many years, but suddenly last month, the postal service claims that same newsletter was undeliverable as addressed, and was returned to the sender. Same problem happened with a card I sent my son who has lived at the same address in Troy, NY for over 20 years. I got the card back saying there was no such address, despite that being his official address. He lives 2 hours away, yet a priority package I sent is sent west to Rochester for sorting, then sent east again for delivery. One priority package took 10 days for it to be sent to Rochester for sorting before it was sent to him in Troy. Then they want to keep raising the cost of postage for crappy delivery, and spend $10 billion of taxpayer money for electric vehicles. Would have been better to gut the postal service, and start all over again.
There's only four buildings in this complex, and 11 apartments in each building. Everybody has their own locked mailbox, yet I'm constantly getting mail for someone who lives in one of the other four buildings. They don't bother reading the building numbers on the envelopes.
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