Colorado now has over 1,800 new mail trucks on the roads, including exclusive vehicles with all-wheel drive — and a sweet look reminiscent of the Mighty Ducks cartoon.
Before America even became a country, the United States Postal Service kept the country connected. Now that the 21st Century is in full swing, USPS is making a major investment to keep up with the times in Colorado, where a new USPS sorting and delivery center is now live and over 1,800 next-generation mail vehicles are on the streets.
“This is not your grandmother’s postal service anymore,” James Boxrud, USPS communications specialist, said during a June 11 tour of a mail facility in Golden.
In 2023, USPS committed to a $40 billion investment to modernize the postal service. As of 2025, $18.9 billion of that budget has been spent transforming carrier annexes across the country into high-tech sorting and delivery centers, which can cover more ground more quickly. There are also plans to invest in over 100,000 new vehicles as part of the $40 billion commitment, which has resulted in plenty of improved mail trucks in Colorado.
The USPS serves over 2.6 million addresses in Colorado and has over 10,340 employees in the state. Over the years, the American Postal Workers Union has regularly called out USPS heads for a lack of training, understaffing, poor working conditions and other problems they’d like to see fixed.
