In ‘up north’ Minnesota there are quite a few people who think they’re environmentally conscious simply because they support conservation of public land for the sake of recreation, and that’s the extent of their concern. Might be something like that

They have co-ops and there are ‘less greedy’ insurers out there but at the end of the day it’s slathering this idea on top of the existing framework when the framework itself is probably the real issue. Doctors/facilities need to defray costs of potential malpractice for example, and that adds to cost as opposed to a more efficient universal fund if they were all employed by a single entity (like a governmental department), small stuff like that, economies of scale for operational expense, having to compete to buy real estate for facilities, all adds up

If anyone’s curious, it’s the Maserati Boomerang. Vector Aeromotive vibes with that thing

‘My principles are flexible to the point that I forgot who was protesting for the past 4 years’

I’m in Minneapolis and we got 130 new Metris vans last year. Like, the actual 55401 P&DC, not including all the city stations that also got new Metris vans. There’s your area where EVs make sense. No misconception here.

Edit: and RCAs will use their own vehicles per the contract so even in the places where shoving these things off to make room for EVs for city routes would make sense, not possible

Who’s to say that backpack only had a jacket and monopoly money in it? Pin the evidence

But why not phase out with capital expense of new electric vehicles as they depreciate? I’m pro environment to the point of spending years running to work, also a postal worker, and DeJoy is basically running shit into the ground by blowing cash on capital equipment like he has some sort of magic credit card.

This also really fucks with enterprise value and makes the USPS more ‘juicy’ in regard to being privatized. Sitting on oodles of new shiny gear with an atrocious balance sheet, piggy bank primed to be smashed to pieces.

But environmentally speaking, we just got a fuckload of Metris and scrapping all that shit for the sake of buying new shit is peak consumerism. Cram the landfills

Edit: I cannot stress that last bit enough, in the past couple year we already revamped our fleet as drastically as the EV contract would be. So fucking stupid. Maybe give it 10 years? Mail volume is so high we had to but it’s good servicable stuff, may as well use it and let it all depreciate rather than buy EV for the sake of the environment and scrap a bunch of new vans at the detriment to the environment and the USPS’ solvency

Joey Manarinno looks more closely like the shooter than this guy IMO. Not saying it’s Joey but if you find 100 athletic Italian guys that are 5’10"-ish you’d probably just throw your hands up and shake your head

Somebody a couple hundred miles from New Jersey has a fake NJ ID and a silenced pistol, but what are the odds the shooter still had those items 6 hours after the incident?

Hotmail is to Outlook as Buick is to Cadillac