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USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers (apnews.com)
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The Postal Service’s new delivery vehicles aren’t going to win a beauty contest. They’re tall and ungainly. The windshields are vast. Their hoods resemble a duck bill. Their bumpers are enormous.

“You can tell that (the designers) didn’t have appearance in mind,” postal worker Avis Stonum said.

Odd appearance aside, the first handful of Next Generation Delivery Vehicles that rolled onto postal routes in August in Athens are getting rave reviews from letter carriers accustomed to cantankerous older vehicles that lack modern safety features and are prone to breaking down — and even catching fire.

Within a few years of the initial rollout, the fleet will have expanded to 60,000, most of them electric models, serving as the Postal Service’s primary delivery truck from Maine to Hawaii.

Once fully deployed, they’ll represent one of the most visible signs of the agency’s 10-year, $40 billion transformation led by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who’s also renovating aging facilities, overhauling the processing and transportation network, and instituting other changes.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have no idea how he’s still there.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The president can't directly fire him, and inexplicably hasn't used the indirect means available (appointing new members to the board of governors who would do the needful).

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Basically the governors on the board like him, the senate will fight any appointments, and Biden cowed him over the electrical vehicles already, so it was largely a win, somewhat a loss as is.

Initially the new vehicles were going to be like 90% gas, 10% electric. Biden forced him to flip to almost all electric.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ll be blunt: the EV win is going to be categorically meaningless if DeJoy ends up fucking with mail in ballots enough that it makes an impact on the result of the election

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's a small win orthogonal to that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, this is super useful context. I was also scratching my head how something broadly positive was coming out of De Joy, who has certainly worked to dismantle USPS from what I remember.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

It's in spite of him, not from him.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well actually, now he can. “Official act, fuck you.” (per Trump v. United States, No. 23-939)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But only if he assassinates him, right?

[–] gravitas_deficiency 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah, that’s one way to “fire” someone.

Also: is an assassination if it’s an “official act”?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Why wouldn't it be?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Biden used his direct power to cancel student debt for a lot of borrowers and the Supreme Court illegally blocked it so laws are meaningless in this country.