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Richard230

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USPS EV truck news
« on: April 06, 2022, 04:36:52 PM »
Here is the latest USPS scandal. You would think that having all EV trucks for local deliveries would be a perfect usage. But apparently the USPS has their heads stuck where the sun don't shine.
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Re: USPS EV truck news
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2022, 08:58:16 AM »
yeah kinda ass backwards thinking there.  They should at least invest in hybrids, I think a hybrid delivery truck would be great.  I used to work as a carrier and those old LLVs are falling apart and are in a state of disrepair.  I have to say they did get LONG LIFE out of them though.  I think that was the plan was to purchase a certain amount of EVs, hybrids, and ICE truck.  Depends on the situation they are using them in.

From what one of my supervisors said they have tried a lot of different experiments with EVs and natual gas vehicles.  One of the problems with the EVs is the carriers would forget to plug them in and then they wouldn't have charge the next day.  The NG vehicles they said didn't have enough power for really steep streets.
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Re: USPS EV truck news
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2022, 04:44:42 PM »
When I worked for the Post Office during the early 1960's the USPS tried out Cushman 3-wheel fabric covered scooters for delivering mail. They had a couple of issues. They couldn't deal with steep hills and they had a tendency to fall over if you turned at an intersection too fast. They didn't last long. But I don't know how long as I received my draft notice before the Cushmans were dumped, possibly for the LLVs.  ???
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Re: USPS EV truck news
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2022, 09:20:03 PM »
I know in Japan they use the Postal Cub
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« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2022, 08:34:53 AM »
Which reminds me. During the early 1960's I had a job working for the local Post Office, attempting to fund my college education. At the time I didn't have a car, just a Vespa motor scooter. So I would pick up the mail for the first section of my route at the office, place it in my leather bag, place the bag on the scooter's floorboard between my legs and ride to the start of my route, where I would park and walk from house to house delivering mail. (We didn't deliver packages in those days. Just letter-size mail and magazines.) I got away with that for a couple of months and then the Postmaster happened to see me riding my scooter with official government mail between my legs and he had a fit. He said that was not only dangerous, but I was not protecting the mail securely. I thought I would get fired, but instead I was given a mail route that allowed me to walk from the office to the start of my new route. So the mail remained safe from then on.  ;)

Interestingly, a year or two later, the USPS tried using enclosed Cushman 3-wheel golf cart-type vehicles to deliver mail. That was a big fail. Not only were they not powerful enough to climb the steepest hills in our town, but they were top heavy and sometimes would fall over if you went around a corner too fast. It wasn't long after that episode that the USPS started looking for the little trucks that they are still using to deliver mail and are now trying to replace.
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