Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said the U.S. Postal Service needs to replace its aging mail trucks and he wasn’t aware of an effort by the incoming presidential administration to cancel plans to buy electric vehicles.
“We need vehicles,” DeJoy said Dec. 6 in an interview at Bloomberg’s New York headquarters. “I have 100,000 vehicles I’m buying. When I get done with that, I have another 100,000 that are way past their useful life.”
The comments came after Reuters reported that President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is considering canceling contracts to electrify the mail delivery fleet.
DeJoy said he hasn’t had any communication from the Trump team on the possibility, and declined to comment further.
