The Postal Service’s new delivery vehicles aren’t going to win a beauty contest. They’re tall and ungainly. The windshields are vast. Their hoods resemble a duck bill. Their bumpers are enormous.
“You can tell that (the designers) didn’t have appearance in mind,” postal worker Avis Stonum said.
Odd appearance aside, the first handful of Next Generation Delivery Vehicles that rolled onto postal routes in August in Athens, Georgia, are getting rave reviews from letter carriers accustomed to cantankerous older vehicles that lack modern safety features and are prone to breaking down — and even catching fire.
Within a few years, the fleet will have expanded to 60,000, most of them electric models, serving as the Postal Service’s primary delivery truck from Maine to Hawaii.
Well it’s ugly as shit but it’s super functional so I really can’t complain. Some people thought the AC-130 was ugly, fat and slow till it shelled the fuck out of them
It would be hard to develop something that’s not an improvement to the absolute shitboxes they were using.
If lurking in the USPS subreddit for a few years had taught me anything, it’s that some really love the LLVs and some just hate the platypus that’s replacing it, as it was often called.
oh fuck what a beauty. I want one of these in cozy coupe theme but the old one without the eyes. kids these days have it rough.
Honestly, as replacements for their legacy, these look spot on. Modern versions of what came before. I’m so glad the postal workers are receiving new, safer equipment.
Huh, in my area recently they’ve been using just normal Mercedes vans with the Mercedes logo replaced by the USPS logo so I had assumed that was just the new standard USPS vehicle now but I guess not, interesting.
Belcher-ass transportation mode.
Damn look at the storage space they have
Really happy we are upgrading these finally, the previous vehicles had aged out and put postal employees in danger.
Man look at the 5head on that truck
I think it’s cute!
I think they’re adorable. They should let us buy them.
Sort of weird looking by current standards. I don’t know how long it will be before I see one of these. I live in a rural area, and our local USPS seems to use personal vehicles I guess? I don’t really know for sure, but they don’t drive the standard white and blue box that USPS drivers had when I lived in more urban/suburban settings.
same where I am - delivery vehicle is an ancient, busted right-hand drive jeep. I don’t imagine I’ll be seeing one of these new vehicles any time soon
Mpg on those old ones is like 9. Using those things in a rural area is just a waste of money. $3 to deliver to less than 10 customers for gas alone?
It looks like the car that SpongeBob would drive if that were a thing that happened in reality. I love it so much.
Love it, peak utility design, and it’s cute.
The delivery truck, Duck for short.
Cuz it kinda looks like a duck.
Ducky McDuckyFace?
Yeah. Kinda like a storm trooper helmet too.
… idk, not boxy enough :)
Glad to hear they’re mostly electric. A mail truck is an ideal use a for EV, it ought to save the USPS a ton of money
