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

Photo Above - If you've seen this truck, please contact the government department of waste and fraud . . .

Who’s making those electric mail trucks? “Oshkosh Defense?” Never heard of them? Never mind . . . you’re unlikely to actually see one of the new mail trucks in the wild, either. (link below)

In 2021, as part of the hilariously misleading “Inflation Reduction Act”, the Biden administration signed a $6 billion dollar deal with Oshkosh Defense to replace the entire US Postal Service fleet with EV trucks. $3 billion has been paid out so far. How are we doing?

1 – of the 165,000 vehicles scheduled, only 600 are in operation today.

2 – Oshkosh built a giant factory to supply the new trucks. But the factory only produces one truck per day. Not a typo – one truck per day.

3 – 14,000 charging stations have been purchased, and 6,600 are installed. That’s 10 charging stations already for each working Oshkosh EV mail truck.

4 – the US Postal Service lost $10 billion in 2024, just from routine operations. This does not include the EV truck fiasco.

5 – the USPS also bought 8,000 Ford E-Transit vans because of the slow delivery of the Oshkosh trucks. 6,000 Fprd EV's sit idle, and have never been used.

Who the heck is Oshkosh Defense? They’re based in Wisconsin, and mostly build army non-combat vehicles to deliver supplies to troops. They have 15,000 workers. This is a REALLY big defense contractor, which might explain how the mail truck contract was steered to them. Wisconsin Senators Tammy Baldwin (democrat) and Ron Johnson (republican) may have further insight. I hope we’re not going to find out that this contract was in return for Tammy and Ron’s support of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.

At this point I would respectfully ask that President Trump NOT commission a new fleet of “Trump Class Battleships”, which are certain to become an even worse boondoggle. They would probably take decades to build and require 10 support ships each. Instead, let’s figure out what’s going on with the Oshkosh and Ford E-Transit mail trucks. They’re urgently needed to save the planet from global warming, and also to reduce inflation!

I’m just sayin’ . . .



USPS blew $3 billion on electric trucks – and has almost nothing to show for it

Oshkosh Corporation - Wikipedia