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Plus speedrunning the financial failure of the USPS will let them dismantle and privatize it
Then Trump can roll out his Uber-like mail service company where the workers provide their own vehicles and 60% more mail goes "missing" in transit.
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At least UPS is unionized
Those things, from what I heard, are an absolute necessity of an upgrade for postal workers. They absolutely deserve those vehicles. Just like the vehicles probably deserve and hunger for the flesh of the people who want them gone.
How so?
Because the old vehicles are from the 90s and are massive pieces of shit?
According to Wikipedia, the Grumman LLV was in production from 1986—1994... Which seems kinda wild to me in 2025.
Also according to Wikipedia, when used for mail delivery, its average fuel economy is 8.2—10 mpg 😬
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their old grumman LLV's are inefficient, cramped, HOT AS FUCK (no climate control you get a fan lol) that were harder and harder to keep on the road after nearly 4 decades of work. also, a tremendous amount of 'postal work' is not letters, but now packages - and these vehicles can't hold much compared to the new ones.
Thank you.
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Just because they're EVs...
What other technological innovations have political parties been (corrupt) allergic to?
I know Edison lobbied hard against AC power systems but there must be tons of examples over the years
Train transport, public transportation in general.
Hemp
Renewable energy.
vaccines
It's crazy how if you'd asked me about vaccine hesitancy and conspiracy theories in 2019 I would've told you that extreme left wing hippy nut jobs are the archetype I associate with it, but then COVID hit and bam! Now it's the right wing nut jobs
I don't know if the numbers compare, but I've talked to a postman here, and he told me that EVs save a lot of money for the postal service. Here, stick-shift is the way to go, and he told me that they basically wore down 1-2 clutches a year per car before swithching to EVs.
and here I was just thinking, "Hey, I hope someone can give away something my tax dollars already paid for again. I really liked when Scott Walker gave away our trains, what a swell guy"
And your power plants!
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Only the supposed richest country in the world would force their postal employees to drive around in vehicles that were built in the 1980's. WTF! That is worse than 3rd World. FFS, the Deutsche Post use electric bicycles, electric delivery vehicles and modern Mercedes-Benz trucks. Invest in your fucking infrastructure AmeriKa.
Making the country work? that's socialism
Infrastructure must be paid for socially but owned privately and any and all repairs or future investments will be subsidized in order to please Jesus Christ the patron saint of Capitalism.
MAGAts are the worst form of stupid.
I am mad they want to get rid of them. We have already designed and started rolling them out. But I do think they look extremely ugly. Doesn't mean we should get rid of them.
They look like that for accessibility, to be driveable and comfortable for even the tallest and shortest postal employees, and that makes them goddamn beautiful.
I did not know that's why they look like that. Makes a lot of sense but the original (to me) postal truck will always have a special place in my heart.
It's so cool that they're unique. Nothing is ever novel anymore. Cheapest most boring everything. Except for rich people. At least these have character
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nah, they'll replace the EVs with trucks off a truck tree. Free tree trucks. Try saying that while you're drunk
Probably all those unsold Cybertrucks
yeah after they convert them back to oil burners. not even diesel, they'll go full on fuel oil.
First-past-the-post wasting taxpayer money right there!
Can I buy one to live in?
Jk, I don't have money
I've never seen one of those on the road yet, but whoever designed them should probably consider a career change.
EDIT: I've accepted that I'll just never understand why some things get down-voted here. Like, do people actually like the way that design looks?
It looks like a Grumman LLV somehow reproduced with a cartoon duck, a pug, and one of these:
They look kind of dopey, but they look like they'd really do a good job of prioritizing safety for pedestrians, pets, and especially kids with the really low hood height. The minimum distance to see the road on that thing has got to be like three inches.
Valid point.
🤔 I wonder if it could have been designed without that part altogether. I've driven one of those flat-fronted Isuzu box trucks before, and it's crazy how much more you can see in front of the vehicle.
The flat front is a tradeoff that tends to make maintenance more difficult
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Maybe you can counsel them on a career in "armchair social media influencer".
Aim high, right?
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