Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” would force Postal Service to sell its new EV mail trucks: the potential for raising money at auction is “negligible” and “it will seriously cripple our ability to replace an aging and obsolete delivery fleet.”

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1. > In order to use this approach, every item in the bill must have a budgetary impact, and the Senate parliamentarian determines whether each provision meets that standard, known as the Byrd Rule.

   > Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough found that disposing of the USPS EVs is one of several of the bill’s provisions violating the Byrd Rule

   > When the Postal Service first announced its proposal in 2021 to replace 165,000 vehicles, it originally intended to purchase traditional gas vehicles to replace 90% of the fleet. But the gas-powered mail trucks had low fuel efficiency, guzzling fuel at under a 9-m.p.g. rate, according to filings by several environmental organizations and more than a dozen states that sued to block the plan.

2. The postal service is IMPERATIVE to our rights of this nations foundation! It serves rural areas for medicine, mail, information! It allows for voting for those housebound, or even overseas for war. It is not a MONEY MAKING ENDEAVOR, much like the military is not looked at in that way. The idea of modernizing the necessary fleet, which helps the government worker for safety and efficiency(the second offer was for the ‘fiscal hawks’), as well as decoupling from oil/gas in a way that is an investment in the American worker people’s best interest-

   Oh…, sorry for rambling, now I see why this is happening.

3. >”Scrapping USPS’ electric vehicles is a lose-lose scenario,” Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley, ranking member of the Budget Committee, told CBS News in a statement. “We move backwards on clean energy and have to spend even more money to replace the vehicles

   I’ve said it before mail trucks are the best use for electric vehicles. It’s constant stop and go, they’re parked overnight and most routes are under 50 miles.

4. Pathetic intentional mismanagement of societal resources. 

5. According to a post I saw yesterday, a mail carrier may have died from heat exhaustion yesterday in Dallas.

6. Remember who did this

7. Yeah that’s not going to happen. My mother is a retired post master and I’ve heard so many stories about how they are already short on vehicles as it is lol. Many places in California have already installed the EV architecture and are still waiting for the new vehicles to be delivered because their aging fleet of LLV’s from the 80s are breaking down faster than they’re being replaced. I hear stories of how some mail carriers have to wait until another carrier comes back after finishing their route before they can even head out on their route. It’s pretty ridiculous.

8. Crippling the US Postal Service is the objective, yes.

9. They want to destroy the government and anything related to it. They will privatize some of it and we’ll all live with more toll roads, FedEx to deliver letters at $20 each, private schools, and little R&D.

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