Ford to Supply Parts for U.S. Postal’s New Delivery Vehicles

[AzScorpion]

Ford has its hands in everything lately. I wonder if they'll put a Coyote motor in these? lol

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/ford-supply-parts-u-postal-112131244.html

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is renewing its fleet of delivery vehicles and Ford Motor (F) has been tapped as parts supplier, according to a Reuters report.

The USPS contracted with Oskhosh Defense to have it build modern delivery vehicles for the postal service. The portfolio will consist of both electric and gasoline-powered vehicle models. Oskhosh Defense is a unit of Oshkosh Corp (OSK).

Ford will provide Oskhosh with engines and transmissions to use in making the new USPS delivery vehicles. Suspensions and other parts are also included. The parts will come from Ford’s Michigan plant, while Oskhosh will assemble the vehicles in South Carolina.

Oskhosh’s contract with the USPS could be worth more than $6 billion, according to Reuters, but Ford has not disclosed the financial terms of its deal.

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[Porpoise Hork]

No real surprise there. Ford has supplied the USPS for the bulk of it's delivery fleet for decades.

Ford has its hands in everything lately. I wonder if they'll put a Coyote motor in these? lol

For the love of the Gods I hope not... Most of them can't drive the trucks they have now with any level of competence. The new ones wouldn't last two days in the hands of those miscreants.

 

[AzScorpion]

No real surprise there. Ford has supplied the USPS for the bulk of it's delivery fleet for decades.

No not a big surprise but with many of the manufacturers now going heavy into EV I'm glad to see Ford still holding this contract. Lets just hope the can deliver their retail/commercial sales with all the parts constraints lately.

For the love of the Gods I hope not... Most of them can't drive the trucks they have now with any level of competence. The new ones wouldn't last two days in the hands of those miscreants.

Yeah but we might just get our mail on time. ?

 

[MountainGoat]

I thought the Post Office was out of money?

 

[AzScorpion]

I thought the Post Office was out of money?

They are. No where did is say Ford was actually going to get paid. ?

 

[MountainGoat]

They are. No where did is say Ford was actually going to get paid. ?

Well the price of a stamp is going up 3 cents. And with red hot demand for stamps these days that'll probably cover it. /s

 

[myothercarizahearse]

It's a yahoo story. How credible can it be?

 

[AzScorpion]

It's a yahoo story. How credible can it be?

Here's a better one just for you Dave. ?


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-postal-service-ford-idUSKCN2DY2AY

 

[myothercarizahearse]

Here's a better one just for you Dave. ?


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-postal-service-ford-idUSKCN2DY2AY

thank you. so the new delivery trucks come with any dampers? i didn't see any mention in the "article"

 

[AzScorpion]

thank you. so the new delivery trucks come with any dampers? i didn't see any mention in the "article"

Me and Jim Farley have a meeting about that later this week. ?

 

[wanted33]

Something has changed for sure. For a very long time the only way you could get a job at the Post Office in my area was too to know someone already there. There was a "help wanted" sign in front of our local Post Office the other day. Somethings wrong.......

 

[AzScorpion]

Something has changed for sure. For a very long time the only way you could get a job at the Post Office in my area was too to know someone already there. There was a "help wanted" sign in front of our local Post Office the other day. Somethings wrong.......

Jim I took the test back when I was 22. I was told I would be put on a list and they would call me if they needed a temp to fill in for someone either calling out sick or taking vacation. They said if you say no when they call you're taken off that list.

Well they called about a year later early in the morning and wanted me to come in for someone who called out sick. I was just starting my business then and was buried with work so I declined and never heard from them again.

 

[Chris M]

I talk to my carrier at work every day (part of my job is mail sorting for my residents), and based on what I'm told by the carrier, you couldn't GIVE me a job at the Post Office.
Without trying at all to be funny, I can see why postal workers might actually want to "go postal". The pressure carriers are under here in PHX is awful, and the conditions they're forced to endure (consider this past week at 115* ++) are nearly inhumane.

 

[Langwilliams]

I can provide a little inside if you like....I just retired last week an can tell you it's a shit show pretty much every day.

Yeah but we might just get our mail on time

Drive by any post office an if it's a busy area chances are there will be unused trucks parked there all day. Every office is short staffed. My friends tell me there are 5 more routes than people. There are 14 routes in that office. When I started it was 5 so it's a rapidly growing office. Now every carrier So now every carrier that doesn't go get a Dr note limiting them to 8 hours a day for medical reason gets to do their entire route an half of one the five that doesn't have anyone assigned to them that day. Starting at 7 am an working to 8 pm is the norm. Even management are physically delivering mail they are so short. The only reason you go into management is you're too lazy to deliver mail.

Something has changed for sure. For a very long time the only way you could get a job at the Post Office in my area was too to know someone already there. There was a "help wanted" sign in front of our local Post Office the other day. Somethings wrong.......

see the above. Management blamed the pandemic for not hiring people because you couldn't put them in a room together to train them so the answer is to run everyone into the ground. I think the run them into the ground is the new business model. I planned on working until I was 60 until about 6 years ago when the run them into the ground started. Get the older people to retire an replace them with cheaper people or don't replace them, just run the remaining people into the ground. if you're new plan on working 6 or 7 days a week for the first few YEARS. also plan on shoulder an knee surgeries. Part of the run them into the ground model is the GPS tracker you carry all day that gives an alert to management if you spend too much time at any location.

when I started 25 years ago you started as part time but at full pay an got full benefits after 90 days. Now you start as a non career no benefits employee making around $15-16 an hour. After 2 years you become career with benefits but stay part time until a full time position opens via a retirement. Part time means no set schedule NOT under 40 hours a week. You work as many or few hours as needed when needed. Counting my retirement my old office lost 6 carriers in the last year an a half an got one replacement new person. He quit after a week saying it was a lot harder than he expected.

 

[Langwilliams]

as far as vehicles go we had a few areostars an windstars for walking routes. They made a right hand drive delivery vehicle on the old explorer platform but it was too cramped to be effective. The work load evolved from thousands of paper magazines an letters an a few packages to hundreds of paper letters an magazines an hundreds of packages (large an small).

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