I don't care whether any group of employees is unionized or not, so long as:

1) They are given the freedom to choose for themselves, free of retaliatory threats from management or the government (ahem, Tennessee).

2) If they vote to unionize, the state doesn't try to undermine them via laws that make it near…

Well good for you. Want a cookie?

I can't say I blame the Hostess union. They made considerable concessions in years past under the agreement that the management would use the savings to reinvest in the business. Instead the management pocketed every cent of savings, stole workers' pension contributions, and then…

If that makes me a statist, I'm happy to be labeled a statist. We just see no evidence that the competition is seriously outplaying the USPS in the markets where they compete... and fracturing a frequent delivery market (where every home is visited 6x a week) only introduces gross inefficiencies into the system. …

Letters, bills (not all can be paid online, you know), all sorts of things still rely on the USPS.

And the American Letter Co is an extremely dated, essentially irrelevant example. Why? Because the sole reason they managed to make it was because the USPO was charging exorbitant amounts in postage at the time. To be…

You like the idea of letters costing $9 and up?

How does it work? By organizing into a "union" in the manner they have, they amount to nothing more than a club. They aren't fighting for any bargaining rights, any worker protections, etc... They're fighting against the UAW. They're as much of a union as Ikea is a nonprofit business.

Look into what the ACE actually says it wants - no dues, no negotiations over wages, terms or conditions, no worker protections...

That isn't a union.

"ACE" isn't anti-UAW. They're anti-union.

It's even more rich than that -

JTEKT is a Toyota subsidiary.

The LWB version is already at 165.9 cu ft of total space.

The problem is more in the body - They'll likely need to switch to aluminum to meet the longevity requirement.

The Transit Connect is already available as a CNG vehicle. That's alternative enough.

Meh, put new engines in them and they're good for another 30 years...

#BUFF

Beset by the biggest quality problems under his stewardship, Ito, 61, has said he will bring the company back to basics and signaled that Honda will no longer pursue business expansion as its main target. He said today that it has no intention of rescuing Takata financially and will work with the company to identify…

The only real problem is that while it is a lot of vehicles, the demand won't be there for long. If spread out over 10 years, for example, that still would push total US demand to barely over 50k, if I remember their current sales rates correctly.

They might catch enough extra sales to make it a reality if Mazda does…

Styled and tuned in the US, yes.

Platform, chassis, powertrain - where most of the actual jobs are - were still done in Japan.

7 days a week in many areas now - the USPS does Sunday deliveries for Amazon now.

You need to have the body last, too. That means aluminum in all likelihood.

They need to have that flag attached to the throttle plate... and the door to the box, too, of course...

Knowing Congress, though, they probably would insist on not letting Ford get away with their maneuvers around the chicken tax anymore, though, and insist on Ford paying the tax, which means the USPS pays the tax.... because Congress seemingly can't stop screwing up the USPS on purpose..

Though with enough demand, they…

Maybe, but it would be interesting to compare the financials between an EV and a hydraulic hybrid - the former is getting much cheaper.. but the latter is cheaper yet, and has huge fuel efficiency boosts on larger vehicles.