Report: Postal Service needs new trucks, can’t afford them

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The U.S. Postal Service needs new trucks to deliver the mail, but replacing its entire fleet would cost almost $6 billion, a price too high for an agency losing billions annually, according to a new government report.

Postal Service delivery vehicles are driven an average of about 17 miles per day and cost about $1 billion in maintenance and fuel annually, according to a new Government Accountability Office report. It owns more than 161,000 right-hand drive trucks that are nearing the end of a 24-year life cycle. About 21,000 of the trucks are capable of running on either gasoline or ethanol, as are another 22,000 left-hand-drive minivans and 3,490 delivery vehicles.


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average of about 17 miles per day

[Lounge Lizard]

"that are nearing the end of a 24-year life cycle"