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USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers

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.

Fester ,

The new trucks also feature something common in most cars for more than six decades: air conditioning. And that’s key for drivers in the Deep South, the desert Southwest and other areas with scorching summers.

“I promise you, it felt like heaven blowing in my face,” Stonum said of her first experience working in an air-conditioned truck.

Good.

BigDaddySlim ,
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I’ve used the old trucks in New Mexico, 140°F in the trucks wasn’t uncommon in the summer. It was a relief to get out of it and cool off a bit. AC will be great.

gsfraley ,

Jesus Christ that’s basically uninhabitable for any extended period of time

BigDaddySlim ,
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Yeah it’s basically a convection oven on wheels with the little rinky dink fan installed in them

Evil_Shrubbery ,

Love it, peak utility design, and it’s cute.

Wogi ,

The delivery truck, Duck for short.

Cuz it kinda looks like a duck.

brbposting ,

Yeah. Kinda like a storm trooper helmet too.

ravhall ,

I think they’re adorable. They should let us buy them.

GooberEar ,

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.

qisope ,
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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

Vorticity ,

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.

2ugly2live ,
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I think it’s cute!

TheTimeKnife ,
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Really happy we are upgrading these finally, the previous vehicles had aged out and put postal employees in danger.

Reverendender ,

It looks like the car that SpongeBob would drive if that were a thing that happened in reality. I love it so much.

Ooops ,
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So this happens when a Fiat Multipla develops into its final form in all its glorious ugliness…

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