Last year USPS purchased 9,113 2016 Ram ProMaster 2500 commercial vans as extended-capacity delivery vehicles. This purchase is separate from the pending USPS Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) and the award for USPS Intermediate Walk-In Body Delivery Truck.
USPS began deployment of the vehicles late last year and continuing into 2016. The vans will be used primarily to replace aging minivans and support the changing mail mix.
The total value of this initial contract is $257 million, setting the van price at $28,117, well below the retail price — even before postal add-ons are included.
As noted, USPS may exercise option to buy an additional 3,340 vans for $94 million.
The boost in package sales and delivery , the newly created position of “Assistant Rural Carrier” (ARC), the agreement to replace rural carrier LLVs in recent contract with NRLCA may warrant and/or justify the need for additional vans. But USPS must order vans before the end of March 2016.
In the meantime, USPS is rolling out the 9,113 vans to 285 postal facilities. The Top 20 facilities are listed below:
They will be just as crappy as the LLV’s.Every time it rains,my truck reminds of that movie “A River Runs Through It”.Five months to go ….good by.
More Chrysler junk. Some of the worst quality in the industry and some USPS paper pusher that knows nothing about vehicles makes a multi-million dollar purchase. On top of that, the mechanics don’t have the training to repair these things until they are trained by certified Chrysler mechanics, resulting in more millions above the stated contract. We all know that dealerships rip service customers off ,but they will give the federal government a break, right? Take your satchel to pick up the parts that falls off of these lemons.