U.S. Postal Service Could Save Nearly $2 Billion by Using Best-Practice Strategy to Replace Aging Vehicle Fleet USPS — inclined to purchase its new mail truck using antiquated process — could save $1.9 billion and improve vehicle safety by purchasing mixed fleet of off-the-shelf vehicles, according to SAFE Issue Brief September 28, 2015 Washington, D.C. – […]
Mail truck bursts into flames near Anthem PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) – A mail truck caught on fire near Anthem Thursday afternoon, blocking a northbound off-ramp on I-17. Peter Hass, a spokesman for the U.S. Post Office in Phoenix, tells us that no mail was lost in the fire. That mail truck had apparently had just completed […]
May 8, 2015 FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) –Fresno police are still searching for the person that stole a U.S. Postal Service truck in Central Fresno on Friday afternoon. Police say it was taken near the intersection of North 11th Street and Sussex Way at around 12:30 p.m. after the mail carrier parked the vehicle and decided […]
Two people were taken to hospital following a Friday afternoon accident on Chesnee Highway that led to an overturned mail truck. Details of the accident weren’t immediately available but reports said a pickup truck and the mail truck were involved in a collision near the Old Metal Road intersection. The accident occurred shortly before 4 […]
A Postal Worker remains in critical condition after he was thrown from the vehicle when it crashed in Bowie, Maryland authorities said Friday. Read more The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit is investigating a crash in Bowie that left a driver in critical condition. The driver is an employee with […]
A U.S. Postal Service employee was hospitalized Wednesday afternoon and two teenage boys are facing charges after they crashed their pickups into a mail truck. The teenage boys, both 17 and driving Ford F250 pickup trucks, are suspected of drag-racing on Engler Road shortly after noon today. Traffic investigators believe the boys were both […]
A car collided with a U.S. Postal Service truck in Oceanside Sunday afternoon, according to Oceanside Fire Department officials. Emergency officials responded to Atlantic Avenue near Stevens Street at 2:15 p.m. for a car accident, officials said. First responders found that a silver Jeep had broadsided a postal service truck, fire officials said. Thankfully, no […]
LLV catches fire in the oldest town on Cape Cod SANDWICH – Four units with the Sandwich Fire Department were dispatched to a mail truck fire Friday. Firefighters arrived on scene on Cardinal Road in the afternoon for a fire involving a US Postal Service vehicle. Members of the fire department say that there were […]
A New Jersey motorist, blinded by sun, crashes into LLV injuring letter carrier. The letter carrier was sorting mail in back of the LLV, according to the Parsippany Daily Record: HANOVER – A motorist on Whippany Road, temporarily blinded by the late afternoon sun, crashed into a postal truck that was stopped in the right […]
Pushing the Envelope: The USPS Long Life Vehicle 1.22.2015 Considering the amount of wear and tear these trucks endure, the LLV really is an amazing testament to the durability of American engineering. However, unlike Forever Stamps… THEY’RE NOT BUILT TO DELIVER FOREVER. It was originally designed to last 24 years, but in 2009, the USPS […]