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Environment & Energy

eppur_se_muova

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2. If there's one institution that should benefit from EVs, it's the Post Office.

Reply to Lulu KC (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2019, 11:59 AM

Oct 2019

Mail delivery routes are relatively short, predictable, and except in the most rural areas, purely local. I haven't heard of any use of EV's by USPS even here in the TVA area, where electricity is cheap.

I note that UPS has an actual EV strategy; apparently the USPS is forbidden to have one. Maybe after that pension fund is fully pre-funded, they can turn their attention to less urgent structural investments.

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I shouldn't have been surprised--EVs and government facilities [View all] Lulu KC Oct 2019 OP

The traffic going in to the military bases mirrors that... RainCaster Oct 2019 #1

If there's one institution that should benefit from EVs, it's the Post Office. eppur_se_muova Oct 2019 #2

Yes--so true! n/t Lulu KC Oct 2019 #3