Yes !!!!! It’s stupid...what’s new...
Your tax dollars at work from idiot states’...
And the mail might get delivered with gas powered vehicles. Electric? Good luck with that!
Resulting in the price of a First Class postage stamp to rise to $5.00.
Whenever a government agency is sued you have to watch how hard they defend themselves. If they cave or put up a weak defense then it is most likely a conspiracy between the two parties. The agency might want to do something but does not want the decision to be theirs. So they get sued, the court decides and the bureaucrats can say it was not us.
Much of the changes in our society has been made because both sides wanted the same thing but knew the voters did not want the change.
Other than the risk of spontaneous combustion and the battery manufacture and disposal impact on the environment it makes sense.
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Letter carriers won't deliver mail in inner-cities, for obvious reasons.
They would need to prove their case
Finally, the Post Office does something right...and the enviro Nazis go crazy.
Amazing how the government can spend taxpayer dollars without a by-your-leave.
Simple solution...split the purchase. Buy enough electrics for the states that want’em and gas vehicles for the rest.
I guess we can always return to having The Pony Express to carry the mail. It would be a great job for young men and women who enjoy riding horses.
i notice that the 15 states didn’t seek a injunction against the USPS to prohibit the use of their CURRENT fleet of “gas-guzzling” trucks ... maybe the USPS should oblige them anyway ...
Get a frickin' backbone America. The USPS is a dinosaur and needs to go extinct.
I suggest that we stick to a textualist interpretation of the US Constitution. The US Constitution empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and post Roads."
Okay, roads and post offices - plural. So we need two of each.
Post Office #1 - Thoroughfare, WY.
Post Office #2 - North Pole, AK (kids need somewhere to send their letters to Santa)
Post Road #1 - MT State Road 19
Post Road #2 - ND State Road 1806
The links are worth a look.
Just a reminder, in case you forgot: John Kasich's father was a mailman.
Somebody’s palms were greased to get this to happen.
Very simple solution……have the states supply the vehicles.
Back in the 70’s the post office experimented with electric vehicles from a company called CommutaCar:
https://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/commuter-vehicles-postal-comuta-van/
They were prone to bursting into flames. That probably still leaves a bad taste in their collective mouths.
No standing.🤔
Are federal government contracts for EVs in the context of politically correct global warming alarmism just another front-end for unaccountable federal spending, a part of such spending allegedly winding up in the campaign funding of desperate Democrats?
And why are Post Service-untested EVs the perfect, one-size-fits-all solution for alleged climate problems?
In fact, global warming alarmists still haven't explained why greenhouse gasses like methane and CO2 fail to hold down the heat during a midday solar eclipse of an otherwise warm sunny day.
Solar eclipse 2017: How much did the temperature change during the eclipse? (non-FR; 8.22.17)
Also, is it any surprise that nighttime temperatures typically keep dropping in various places until a bit after sunrise?
Next, consider the following Post Service-related thread from earlier this year. The link is followed by the contents of a post in that thread questioning why the Post Office hasn't at least experimented with no left turns like UPS successfully did.
Biden holds up $11.3 billion Postal Service truck contract because of climate change (2.2.22)
To begin with, state-of-the-art electric vehicle (EV) technology is still in pioneering stage in my non-expert imo.
I-95 Ice Storm Overnight Traffic Jam – Imagine you were Stuck in an EV (1.5.22)
But that's not going to stop desperate Democrats from spending somebody else's money to buy a fleet of EVs.
Next, noting that I'm still inclined to believe that that politically correct global warming is a government-manufactured crisis, please consider the following way that one vehicle-dependent company is using less energy.
It's interesting that GE News in February 2017 questioned why USPS trucks don't experiment with avoiding left turns like UPS successfully did.
"UPS have designed their vehicle routing software to eliminate as many left-hand turns as possible (in countries with right-hand traffic). Typically, only 10 percent of the turns are left turns. As a result, the company claims it uses 10m gallons less fuel, emits 20,000 tons less carbon dioxide and delivers 350,000 more packages every year. The efficiency of planning routes with its navigation software this way has even helped the firm cut the number of trucks it uses by 1,100, bringing down the company’s total distance travelled by 28.5 million miles – despite the longer routes." —Why don't USPS trucks experiment with not turning left, at least where turning left typically involves waiting for oncoming traffic, like UPS does?"
Probably at least some EVs would benefit from this approach to saving energy as much as gas-powered vehicles do in many areas.
Note that avoiding left turns would probably effectively "change" residential and business address for some drivers, the same idea as the way that wholesalers like Costco are always moving things around in warehouse so that customers gradually get a better idea of Costco's inventory.
Corrections, insights welcome.