My mail carrier used to use her personal vehicle (a smoke puking thing I might add). But USPS added on package deliver in recent years as USPS is doing last mile work for UPS, and I think Amazon. She has been driving a multi-stop for some years now.
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Lee Hart via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Glen Hoag via EV wrote: > >> AFAIK, all rural carriers use their own vehicles these days. Around here, >> some are still using ex-USPS Jeep DJ-5s, though most have been replaced by >> newer vehicles. >> > > Around here, they all switched from private cars to postal vehicles a good > decade ago. There were debates at the time about safety. People using > regular cars had to sit on the passenger's side (to reach the mail boxes), > and drive with only their left hand on the wheel and left foot to (barely) > reach the accelerator and brake. Can't reach the turn signals, so they > weren't used. That led to accidents. > > Today, I don't know what the Post Office's policy is nationwide. Does > anyone have a mail carrier that uses their personal car? > > -- > We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves. > -- George Matthew Adams > -- > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, leeah...@earthlink.net > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/ > group/NEDRA) > > -- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 585-6737 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell michael.e.r...@gmail.com <michael.e.r...@gmail.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150322/a7ea8f9f/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
