11-21-2014 – On Friday Lisandra Colon, a rural carrier associate (RCA) in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico noticed smoke coming from the dashboard of her mail truck (LLV). She “tried to take letters and packages from the rear of the vehicle, but the entire vehicle suddenly was on fire, and the mail could not be removed. […]
A U.S. Postal Service vehicle caught fire on the side of a busy East Tennessee route Monday afternoon. The driver of the vehicle pulled to the side of Pellissippi Parkway near Dutchtown Road because of a problem with the vehicle. As you can see, the truck caught fire and the flames nearly consumed the vehicle. […]
The United States Postal Service is issuing a Request for Information (RFI) to evaluate the possibility of purchasing a new commercially available Right Hand Drive vehicle to supplement its existing fleet of light delivery vehicles. This would be a stop gap solution to meet Right Hand Drive vehicle requirements until the development of a purpose […]
According to the Office of Inspector General: The Postal Service has an acquisition strategy that has not been fully developed or implemented. The short-term plan developed in 2011 included acquiring 25,000 vehicles costing about $500 million to meet operational needs and replace some of the aging fleet. The long-term plan included purchasing the next generation […]
According to general information on the LLV: The Grumman Long Life Vehicles (LLV) is the most common vehicle used by letter carriers for curbside and residential delivery of mail, replacing the previous standard letter-carrier vehicle, the Jeep DJ-5. The body and final assembly is by Grumman, and the chassis is made by General Motors. The […]
The Road to a New Delivery Fleet What should the postal vehicle of the future look like? The U.S. Postal Service recently put that question to its carriers and vehicle maintenance personnel and is currently reviewing the feedback. It’s an important question because the delivery fleet is aging and the Postal Service needs to quickly […]
WBI will provide 10,000 shelving units for installation in Postal Service vehicles under initial delivery order Alexandria, Virginia (July 23, 2014) –VSE Corporation (NASDAQ: VSEC) subsidiary, Wheeler Bros., Inc. (WBI) was awarded a delivery order to supply 10,000 engineered shelving kits to the United States Postal Service for use in the Long Life Delivery Vehicles (LLV). […]
The U.S. Postal Service uses more than 190,000 vehicles to collect and deliver mail, including about 142,000 long-life vehicles that are nearing or exceeding their expected service life. As the fleet ages, maintenance costs will increase and older models will be retired as they become too costly to maintain or repair. Our objectives were to […]
From the 2011 NALC Postal Record: The Postal Service has a long history of using bikes for city delivery. The Postal Service estimated recently that the carriers on bikes in nearby Sun City, AZ, alone save 7,800 gallons of gasoline a year, which adds up to roughly $27,300 at today’s prices for gasoline.
About 150 pieces of mail were damaged when an engine fire gutted a U.S. Postal Service delivery truck in Findlay. Firefighters responded to a fire that “completely destroyed” the vehicle’s engine compartment at about 3:50 p.m. Tuesday at 631 Bright Road, said Matt Pickett, the department’s fire investigator. The truck engine stalled during the mail […]