If you were in charge of a delivery outfit that had lost $78 billion due to bloated overheads, rampant inefficiencies, and insanely large pension plans, what would be your first move?
If you're the Biden administration, the answer is to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on new trucks!
Oshkosh Defense in Wisconsin just won a bid to build the next generation of USPS vehicles, giving them a range of high-tech features. More importantly to the political left, they'll be electric. Government elites can sleep better knowing the mail isn't being delivered with yucky gasoline, but instead with rare-earth battery metals sourced from polluted mines in Africa and charged by coal-burning power plants. Yay!
Here's the new look of the trucks:
Oshkosh will build 230,000 vehicles over the next 10 years, with the first trucks rolling out by 2023. The last time the trucks had a redesign was more than 30 years ago.
These trucks meant to drive 10 mph will feature a dazzling array of features your car probably doesn't have, like automated braking and 360-degree cameras.
The government is paying Oshkosh $482 million in a first installment to build a new factory and finalize the designs for the trucks.
Here are all the new features:
Don't get me wrong. I'm a huge fan of next-gen vehicle tech, and the face-lift to an aging fleet is nice. It's the priorities here that I'm questioning. Before spending an insane amount of money on new trucks, shouldn't the USPS figure out the administrative and logistical problems causing it to bleed hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year?
