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Several months ago our mail delivery truck was coming towards me as I walked and then the mail person stopped between mail boxes. I asked if they were having problems and was told it was running hot and they were letting it cool off. On my way back from my walk the truck had made it a little further down the road and there was a USPS repair man in it. He said the engine is blown because they had run it out of water. Said the truck was 30 years old and an unknown number of miles on it.

I thought the mail delivery trucks would be an ideal place to use a hybrid system. Battery for the stop at every mail box and gas for the longer sections like the Prius.

As I was walking today a Jeep passed me obviously delivering mail. It had flashing white strobe lights and strobe indicators. I met the mail person at our mail box and noticed it was a Right Hand drive Jeep. Is the USPS using jeeps for delivery vehicles now?

David
 
David, the UPS trucks her run hybrid. They run on battery around the street and both on the roads.
There is not enough battery to run them totally off it so a generator kicks in.
When that happens it sounds like an Atlas rocket lifting off.
My delivery guy loves his new truck for how quiet it is ....most of the time as he is also a sound engineer and likes to protect his ears
 
There is a RH drive Jeep in a rural area around us for mail delivery. It isn't marked, and the driver doesn't have a uniform, so it may be used on contract.

The regular USPS trucks around here are old, gas powered, no strobe lights and no headlights during the day.
 
DavidApp said:
As I was walking today a Jeep passed me obviously delivering mail. It had flashing white strobe lights and strobe indicators. I met the mail person at our mail box and noticed it was a Right Hand drive Jeep. Is the USPS using jeeps for delivery vehicles now?

David
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The Jeeps were being phased out in the late 80's to the 1/3 ton things which we see today. That was about the same time the USPS switched to computers to sell stamps and weigh packages. When I was a carrier, the RHD jeep was what I drove.
 
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