USPS is delivering its new fleet

[Ruralinfo]

The Postal Service’s $9.6 billion upgrade of its delivery fleet is proceeding apace. The organization plans to roll out 106,000 new vehicles by 2028, including 45,000 battery-electric next-generation delivery vehicles and 21,000 commercial-off-the-shelf battery-electric vehicles. Additionally, USPS is upgrading infrastructure at its facilities with the addition of charging stations for the zero-emission electric vehicles, of […]

USPS is delivering its new fleet

The Postal Service’s $9.6 billion upgrade of its delivery fleet is proceeding apace. The organization plans to roll out 106,000 new vehicles by 2028, inclu

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[jaymacgthree]

Interesting read but if they have 35,000 new vehicles on the road already why is it in this region every office is down vehicles and has to beg each other to borrow a set of wheels? The VMF refuses to pick up broken down vehicles because they have no loaners. POV routes that have been on the list for years to have government vehicles assigned to them are still waiting.

It seems more like this a bunch of PR baloney they want to push to make it look like they addressing the issues when in fact nothing is getting done. Basically push propaganda, smile for the camera and collect those huge bonuses.

 

[Rogtar]

Interesting read but if they have 35,000 new vehicles on the road already why is it in this region every office is down vehicles and has to beg each other to borrow a set of wheels? The VMF refuses to pick up broken down vehicles because they have no loaners. POV routes that have been on the list for years to have government vehicles assigned to them are still waiting.

It seems more like this a bunch of PR baloney they want to push to make it look like they addressing the issues when in fact nothing is getting done. Basically push propaganda, smile for the camera and collect those huge bonuses.

My office is getting our Metris fleet (which we got last March, average ~20k miles) rotated out for the duckbills now. The only impediment is getting the regs certified, all the reliefs are trained. The office we train at has 300 in service too.

It's regional, no doubts, but it is moving along.

 

[PapahSmurf]

Shipped out complete with error codes galore. I have 6 that go on and off all day, power steering that goes out and comes back 10 times a day.

It’s apparent that Oshkosh was the low bidder with no idea how to manufacture a vehicle.

 

[hockey94]

The new Short Life Vehicles ?

 

[Rogtar]

Shipped out complete with error codes galore. I have 6 that go on and off all day, power steering that goes out and comes back 10 times a day.

It’s apparent that Oshkosh was the low bidder with no idea how to manufacture a vehicle.

This Article says it wasn't even the lowest, just the most enduring. That said, the company makes military utility, including the MRAP. Their bread are 10-ton vehicles.

I did hear rumor that Morgan Olson is trying to re-open the game and install themselves for delivery alongside it. Some pictures and mentions about theirs getting into some offices.

 

[Gotrope]

My office is getting our Metris fleet (which we got last March, average ~20k miles) rotated out for the duckbills now. The only impediment is getting the regs certified, all the reliefs are trained. The office we train at has 300 in service too.

It's regional, no doubts, but it is moving along.

Do let us know how the trees fair...

 

[psd181]

Interesting read but if they have 35,000 new vehicles on the road already why is it in this region every office is down vehicles and has to beg each other to borrow a set of wheels? The VMF refuses to pick up broken down vehicles because they have no loaners. POV routes that have been on the list for years to have government vehicles assigned to them are still waiting.

It seems more like this a bunch of PR baloney they want to push to make it look like they addressing the issues when in fact nothing is getting done. Basically push propaganda, smile for the camera and collect those huge bonuses.

Before I retired from MVS clerk division in May, they were pulling the engines and transmissions from the LLV's that were being replaced and crushing them.

 

[Shannonboy]

MORONS.....They couldve sold those to pov drivers....po mgmt = STUPIDITY

 

[jaymacgthree]

MORONS.....They couldve sold those to pov drivers....po mgmt = STUPIDITY

Exactly I thought those went into a program where area offices were supposed to be notified of the excess vehicles and Rural Carriers could buy them

 

[Shannonboy]

That would make sense....monkeys and bananas go together, but po mgmt,
and SENSE DO NOT.....

 

[Gotrope]

Exactly I thought those went into a program where area offices were supposed to be notified of the excess vehicles and Rural Carriers could buy them

Can't, you can only buy the Canadian ones. The US ones were produced under a govt contract that excluded passenger safety laws. Therefore, you can't sell them to private party's.

 

[btdtret]

All -- [ selling ( outdated ) LLVs to rural carriers ]

-- The USPS stopped selling the postal jeeps to rural carriers a long time ago - because the USPS said jeeps were ( unsafe and ) too risky to have on the road!

-- From the 2002-2004 National Agreement: MOU .9, in part: Due to the increasing age of the 1/4 ton postal owned jeeps they will no longer be sold.

- LLVs could be sold ( seems the LLVs are getting on in age too )

-- Several rural carriers had old postal jeeps at my first post office - in the 1990s. And some carriers made some extra cash on the side fixing the jeeps. One of those carriers said he was done fixing them because a NAPA dealer told him to get out of the store as they didn't have any more parts for jeeps.

-- And that first office even had a couple in use. Apparently someone was checking records and discovered none of the rural carriers had been certified to operate a postal jeep, so we got to drive around the parking lot one time and voila - we were certified!

-- Strange to learn some offices are swapping out the Metris for the platypus already when some offices have yet to get the Metris. Such is the way of the USPS.

 

[Edge]

So do I flood Justin Glass’ inbox to get my LLV fixed which I’ve written up like 6 times now?
What a MO-ron.

I’d like to see what this guy does all day “managing” the fleet.
I HOPE YOU SEE THIS JUSTIN!!!!!! YEAH TALKING TO YOU

 

[Bucknadhand]

Our vmf here told us it would be 4-5 years before they get to our cow poke area

 

[Haygrrl]

Interesting read but if they have 35,000 new vehicles on the road already why is it in this region every office is down vehicles and has to beg each other to borrow a set of wheels? The VMF refuses to pick up broken down vehicles because they have no loaners. POV routes that have been on the list for years to have government vehicles assigned to them are still waiting.

It seems more like this a bunch of PR baloney they want to push to make it look like they addressing the issues when in fact nothing is getting done. Basically push propaganda, smile for the camera and collect those huge bonuses.

Yup
They had me at......2028