That drives me insane. Nobody would blink if you rolled up in a brand new loaded Explorer, but drive a decade old German car you got for $10k and they think you’re Richie Rich.

To be fair, compared to a creaky old LLV a Metris might as well be an S-Classe. They have *air conditioning*!!

“We’ll figure out how to get the money later” is how every single private business expects their employees to save for retirement.

And to be honest is how many private businesses seem to be run.

But hey, keep trying to kill public institutions! Screw everyone, including yourself, in the process!

Spit out the Kool-Aid and wipe the shoeshine off your tongue.

You’ve just described 99% of the federal government.

I have a mighty need to put the USPS badges on an E63 Wagon

I’m surprised it took this look to get this answer. The GOP wants to kill the USPS and a MB logo is just another alternative fact in that mission. 

“They decided to take off the Mercedes badge because they were afraid that people would see that and think we were spending too much money.”

Torch, my uncle is a retired Post Office worker. He started sorting mail by hand in the late 60's and became an engineer for the sorting/distribution warehouses until he retired in the mid-aughts. He’ll agree with you that the USPS is one of the best mail delivery systems of any government on the planet. He’ll also…

Because gov’t is vilified unlike any private company, unfortunately

Bottom line:  People are stupid.

I thought (at least some of) the LLVs did say “Grumman” on the side.

You’ve apparently never met a hipster. Spend hundreds of $$ shopping at vintage clothing stores to maintain the appearance of someone who is perpetually one step away from homelessness.

“WHAT KIND OF BULLSHIT, WELFARE ABUSING, GOVERNMENT OVERSPENDING IS THIS?! A FUCKING MERCEDES IS DROPPING OFF MY MAIL?! I CAN’T EVEN AFFORD A NEW FUCKING KIA, AND I’M PAYING THAT ASSHOLES SALARY TO DRIVE A MERCEDES?! NO WONDER TRUMP WANTS TO KILL THE USPS, THIS IS BULLLLLSHIITTTTTT”

Agreed.  And I’d suspect its customers/taxpayers who would get more bent out of shape at them buying “luxury” vehicles than higher ups at the post office.  

My guess is to avoid tax payers getting upset about buying foreign vehicles.

This is logic that only makes sense in government: Spend an inordinate amount of money to re-badge tens of thousands of mail trucks in order to maintain the appearance of being thrifty.

“Royale could have basically been a train”

There was an RC glider in that video?

No qualms with a massive vehicle from Bugatti, the Royale could have basically been a train, but I hope against hope that it doesn't have any pretense of off road ability and is instead just an SUV form factor for the sake of sheer ostentatious size.