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 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 of the initial rollout, 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.
Once fully deployed, they’ll represent one of the most visible signs of the agency’s 10-year, $40 billion transformation led by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who’s also renovating aging facilities, overhauling the processing and transportation network, and instituting other changes.
Damn people are mad.
Y’all I don’t have some super in-depth view of the postal service.
I just know they’re paying like ~$22+ an hour to be a rural route driver here.
That’s damn good money for here, and maybe federal health and retirement benefits.
I’m not sure if you’re usps or a contractor and how that would all fall out.
Hell they don’t even get the new cars the article is about, they have to use their own.
~$22.00 an hour to sit in your car and deliver mail is an excellent wage even accounting for wear and tear plus no benefits.
Maybe not everywhere, but I make the same plus benefits for filling trailers with boxes in the heat and cold, and I live a pretty decent life, bought a house, and am saving for retirement plus paying off old debts.
Plus it’s pretty around here, especially on the gravel roads.
The main reason you seem to have been down voted soo much is because you said that Dejoy was the cause of the recent improvements in the postal system. While he was over the USPS during the changes, it’s pretty obvious that he’s not the reason for them. $22hr is decent, but it really does depend on where you live, and they do have deliver a lot of packages, so it’s not an amazingly cushy job (I think a UPS driver is paid like ~$30hr in my area, although you could argue they are moving more packages on avg).