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U.S. Postal Service finalizes plans to purchase mostly gas-powered delivery fleet, defying EPA, White House

Do you even think before you post your drivel? Gas mileage? Just watching our local mail person I noticed they idle at every box for about a minute or more then scoot to the next box and repeat. I asked how many deliveries the avg carrier has and was told between 700 - 900 a day. MPG doesn't become a factor with all that stop and go including Idling.
What happened to the days of parking the truck and walking each block with the bag?
 
What happened to the days of parking the truck and walking each block with the bag?


They have alot more deliveries now with online ordering.. It's not even close to what they were dealing years ago.. They are delivering waaay more packages that arent easy to carry on them now..
 
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The fact that Dejoy hasn’t been canned over a year into this administration is grounds for a congressional investigation….

C’Mon Joe….I know there is a lot going on and you have to replace board members first or whatever….but delegate a lawyer or two to get it done and bring the papers to you to sign. Who cares how messy it is….
Five months later, 18 months total since Biden took office….and Louis Dejoy is still calling the shots at USPS….C’mon man!
 
What happened to the days of parking the truck and walking each block with the bag?
A lot of this depends on the neighborhood.
We also have multiple carriers that come per day. One delivers letters. One delivers packages. The people delivering letters park and walk up and down the street because they stop at most houses and the mailbox is on the porch. The package guy operates more like Amazon/UPS and will stop in front of houses.
 
Rivian started delivery of the electric trucks they built for Amazon.
 
Looks like Louie DeJoy intentionally f***ed over the USPS for the next few decades.


A peer-reviewed study offers yet more evidence the USPS conducted one of the shoddiest environmental reviews of all time.

The lead author of the study, Maxwell Moody, called the USPS’s environmental review “significantly flawed” in a press release, adding yet another layer of criticism to the USPS’s handling of its new delivery fleet procurement.


Instead, the USPS chose a different approach: Fudge the numbers to make it look like a better decision than it is. One way it did so was to list the vehicle’s curb weight as one pound heavier than a critical regulatory threshold that allowed the trucks to emit more than they otherwise could. Another way it did so was to assume the price of gas would stay below $2.55 per gallon through 2040, despite gas being more expensive than that for much of the last 20 years. A third way it did so was to only study scenarios it considered infeasible, like buying 100 percent electric vehicles, so it could dismiss them regardless of what the results of the environmental assessment would be. Meanwhile, it didn’t study sensible middle ground scenarios like buying, say, 50 or 75 percent electric trucks.

All of these issues were immediately obvious to anyone who read the environmental impact statement, including the Environmental Protection Agency administrator who sent the USPS a strongly worded letter claiming that the environmental impact study done by USPS was "seriously deficient." Two months later, attorneys general from 16 states and five environmental groups sued the USPS on the grounds that it violated NEPA with its shoddy environmental review.

Which brings us to the University of Michigan study that confirms the environmental review was indeed shoddy. The study looked specifically at emissions estimates for the gas and electric versions of the trucks, including the so-called “cradle to grave” analysis that includes the entire vehicle life cycle, something the USPS opted not to do. Overall, they found the USPS underestimated the emissions of gas trucks and overestimated the emissions of electric trucks, making the electric trucks seem worse than they would be and the gas ones seem better.

Even after accounting for the increased emissions for the battery manufacturing, electric trucks would result in fewer emissions than gas trucks. The study found this for every scenario it tested, including one in which the grid efficiency continues on its current trajectory even though most experts believe it will get much more efficient over time.
Not only that, but the study found the USPS drastically underestimated the benefits of electric trucks. Under the “business as usual” scenario where grid efficiency continues on its current path, the USPS understated the benefits of EVs by 32 percent. If the grid gets decarbonized by 2050, then the USPS underestimated the benefits of EVs by 44 percent, because the cleaner the grid is, the lower the emissions of EVs when they charge.

The researchers also found discrepancies within the USPS review. For example, the USPS estimated a shockingly low estimate of 323 grams of CO2 equivalent per mile driven in the new gas trucks—equivalent to a MINI Cooper convertible or a Mazda 3 sedan despite weighing about twice as much—a figure the study says “cannot be reconciled” with a stated fuel economy estimate of 8.6 miles/gallon. When the authors calculated expected CO2 emissions on their own based on the combustion intensity of gasoline, they estimated an emission rate about three times higher than the USPS’s estimate.



In Contrast: Amazon is switching over to fully EVs, because they know the long-term investments will put them WAY AHEAD of competitors.
 
Looks like Louie DeJoy intentionally f***ed over the USPS for the next few decades.
He belongs in jail.

Perhaps this blatant malfeasance will be enough to cost him his job as US Postmaster General - which astonishingly is still his job!

I understand that the USPG doesn't serve at the President's whim, but surely this is enough to push him out.

Nor would it surprise me if a careful investigation turned up kickbacks or other corruption. Otherwise, how is is possible to make this bad a choice on vehicles, or to foist this nonsense on the public by way of justification?
 
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He belongs in jail.

Perhaps this blatant malfeasance will be enough to cost him his job as US Postmaster General - which astonishingly is still his job!

I understand that the USPG doesn't serve at the President's whim, but surely this is enough to push him out.

Nor would it surprise me if a careful investigation turned up kickbacks or other corruption. Otherwise, how is is possible to make this bad a choice on vehicles, or to foist this nonsense on the public by way of justification?

He certainly was not serving the long-term interests of the organization he was put in charge of. And he should answer for it
 
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