Ubuntu in the corner, crying.
Linux users: "Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself!"
Hot Dog Guy approves.
I mean, considering the process for getting this fleet started in 2015, it would be 2035 before a new fleet would be rolling out... so yeah, they'll just call to shut down USPS
True, making them rely on vehicles that are failing will reduce the ability for the USPS to effectively do its job and give them another reason to say we need to privatize it.
They literally spent the last 10 fucking years getting these replacements ready to replace the aging fleet.
Also, it's not just a $1.5 billion dollar hit, there was and is a $6 billion dollar contract with Oshkosh Defense to build 165,000 of these, after going through a 6-year iteration process of bids and prototypes. This is throwing the baby out with the bathwater for no discernible reason and at an extremely high cost just to force USPS mail carrier to be locked into an ancient, aging fleet of vehicles. And I don't think a defense giant like Oshkosh isn't just going to sue the shit out of the government for damages for cancelling a contract if it hasn't been fulfilled already.
It sounds like just one more way to try to kill the USPS because if all their vehicles keep breaking down, they won't be able to do their jobs.
Fiscal conservatives, my ass. Most wasteful sonsabitches alive.
The USPS literally just got these, and they're replacing the way-past-end-of-life former fleet of USPS vehicles. These things are so recent that I have a post about them in my post history and I've only been here since October 2023, not even two full years.
Getting rid of them is literally forcing USPS to use old, broken, difficult to maintain due to age vehicles. These replacements have been in the works for ten fucking years and there's a $6 billion contract with Oshkosh Defense to build 165,000 of them.
Further, the old vehicles are missing a huge boon to mail carriers: air conditioning.
Like so many things, it seems like the cruelty is the point. It's not just that they hate EVs, they hate mail carriers having modernized vehicles that are in working condition and climate controlled so they're not sweating their asses off in the summer and freezing their asses off in the winter.
Content is contentment
Thanks for reminding me I've always wanted to have bees. I'd never considered just calling up beekeepers.
Technically you can get unemployment in the offseason.
Wouldn't anti-beans be naebs?
It still does, but I do understand people's displeasure with snaps.