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This might be the lobbying. If so, just cut them a check for the EV cost delta and installing EV charging stations at USPS facilities where vehicles are parked.

Assuming outrageous costs (~$50k per usps branch) and 6000 USPS facilities, that’s $300M to install EV chargers. Say you do it over five years (slowly working from highest to lowest utilization geographies), that’s only $60M a year.

USPS spends $300M a year on fuel, and vehicle fuel accounts for half of their energy use. Per the GAO, USPS spends $2B a year maintaining their bespoke Grumman LLVs. The costs savings are blindingly obvious.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/4/22/2122913...