US Postal Service blew $3 billion on electric mail trucks – and has almost nothing to show for it.

What struck me about the image is that the vehicle is right-hand drive.

I take it that is normal for US Postal Service vans, so the driver is not alighting and boarding in the roadway, and can deliver to roadside boxes in the way shown?

E-vans are becoming common in the UK, and my local Royal Mail fleet includes a few. I don't know their make, but do know Volkswagen and Ford both build 1-tonne e-vans for the UK market, so with right-hand drive. So if Oshkosh can't deliver the vehicles...? I appreciate why the USPS would want the Oshkosh, being built in America by an American company, but Ford is at least US-owned.

As for Oshkosh...


We know that because it says so on its publicity, so it must be right. I've no idea what that sentence means, though. Has its author?

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What does Trump mean by "battleship"? The term was normally used for the enormous gun-ships whose zenith was World War Two, and now obsolete although I understand the US Navy still has one or two in commission. They are useful for pounding coastal installations, but little else, and a couple of torpedoes will send them under - killing hundreds of men with them.

So perhaps Trump really means a modern frigate or destroyer, as long as his is the class name. I've a bizarre mental image of his likeness in carved oak on the prow, as an 18C-style figurehead.


Modern fighting ships in navies around the worlds are much smaller, lighter, and armed with homing-missiles not those 1940s big guns. Those weapons could probably not be manufactured nowadays, the equipment and expertise having been lost.

They also carry far smaller crews than the capital ships needed, perhaps 250 compared to over a 1000; which is a blessing in a grim way, by a far smaller death-toll when sunk by the enemy.

However, unless basically copying an existing design no new warship can be designed and built within at least a decade, partly because the propulsion, weapons, communications and own-defence systems evolve so rapidly that many specifications and design modifications are almost inevitable.

It is though important to consider that China is expanding its navy considerably, and although Russi has scrapped much of its Cold War submarine fleet, has been re-arming its services.

I've seen them on a truck being delivered. The old trucks have been in use for a long time. When I see an old truck it is usually packed full with only a small space for the driver to sit. They deliver more packages now instead of letters.

Kind of like the city where I live. They rushed out and bought a fleet of electric buses. Buses that now sit idle in the bus barns. Parts are not available and the buses spent more time charging than they did transporting passengers. The old diesels are capable of running for 8 hours. The electrics were lucky to get an hour and a half out of a full charge. Governments were scammed by the green push.

should stick with the Grumman LLV's (many are still running, despite being built between '86 - '94). built to last, and cost the postal service a whopping $25k each

This is just another example of the blatant fraud that is never investigated or prosecuted. We’ve spent literally hundreds of billions of dollars on similar fraud over the last decade and BOTH PARTIES are responsible and NEITHER PARTY investigates or prosecuted anyone involved because they are ALL INVOLVED.

I’ve seen one of those working a route in a ritzy neighborhood one time.