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A congressional effort to fix the nation’s deteriorating mail service may come at the expense of an even bigger and more complicated problem: Medicare solvency.

The world is going wild for electric vehicles, but not the United States Postal Service. The agency said earlier this week it is moving forward with a plan to replace its current mail trucks with a new fleet powered almost entirely by internal combustion engines. The $6 billion contract with…

The Postal Service is planning a new delivery fleet dominated by internal combustion engines despite objections from environmental groups.

The U.S. Postal Service says it has cleared the final regulatory hurdle to placing orders for next-generation mail vehicles

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service has finalized a contract to replace its mail truck fleet with new Oshkosh Corp. models, almost all of them gasoline powered, after the Biden administration unsuccessfully lobbied for buying more electric vehicles.

Two widely supported bills are encountering delays in the Senate

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service is expected in coming days to reaffirm its plan to pay Oshkosh Corp. as much as $6 billion over 10 years to replace an aging fleet of red-white-and blue delivery vans with mostly gasoline-powered models instead of climate-friendly electric vehicles.

The U.S. Postal Service is dysfunctional, timeworn, and hemorrhages billions of dollars a year. It’s also an essential operation that still knits communities together and helps major private carriers get their packages to doorsteps.

The Senate has failed to consider Biden’s nominees to the USPS Board of Governors, leaving it ill-equipped to hold DeJoy accountable and ensure quality mail service.

The House is close to approving a bipartisan bill that would lift onerous budget requirements that have helped push the Postal Service deeply into debt

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service said it could buy more electric vehicles if more funding were available, following Biden administration criticism of the agency’s plan to replace its fleet mainly with gas-powered delivery trucks.