USPS x TuSimple Autonomous Truck Pilot

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for postal service, delivering to 160 million addresses nationwide. Founded in 1775 (as the Post Office Department; reorganized as USPS in 1971), it has tested autonomous trucking technology through a pilot with TuSimple (2019) and explored drone delivery and robotics for mail handling.

Autonomous-trucking company (founded 2015, San Diego and China, by Mo Chen and Xiaodi Hou). The first AV-trucking firm to go public (April 2021 IPO, ~$1.35B). Reached freight pilots and isolated driver-out demonstration runs (e.g. Tucson-Phoenix, Dec 2021) but never sustained observer-free commercial. A governance scandal (CEO fired Oct 2022 over ties to Hydron; FBI/SEC/CFIUS probes; ~$189M securities-fraud settlement) led to a [Nasdaq](/companies/nasdaq) delisting (Feb 2024) and the wind-down of US self-driving operations. Rebranded to CreateAI (Dec 2024), pivoting to generative AI for games and animation, focused on China/Asia. A canonical claims-vs-reality case.