It also catches fire noticeably less than the old trucks

Reminds me of that little vehicle from Flight of the Navigator that delivers the food, then he hides in it to escape the facility.

Looks like an asset from a pixar film with the blank background. Pictures of the real thing in the article it looks wonky but it's more about function over form.

Looks like their mail totes but upside-down.

I like the aesthetics and color scheme.

It looks like what mail trucks would look like in Back to to the Future II.

It looks goofy

You mean Daffy? 😏

I think it's just a case of people needing to get used to it.

I think it's going to be a dorky iconic image soon. Give it a few years and it'll be normalized. Branding even.

As a person who grew up with a creek full of ducks behind my house, I can say that rapey is just the beginning. I have witnessed multiple drownings by rape followed by hours of necrophilia. I have seen ducks following a vicious gang rape swimming around with bald necks from having all of their feathers ripped out.

They are violent. I have seen males group up and rape and murder fellow males and then attack and rape the corpse for the rest of the day.

When I see a protective mother duck having her babies chased around by kids, I stop them. “You have no idea what that poor girl endured to have that row of ducklings following her around. Leave her alone!”

I shudder at the thought of a more violent animal.

What’s wrong with ducks?

Look, you're old enough to know this by now: you're really a beautiful swan.

Though I bet carriers are like Shhhh this has AC.. Who TF cares what it looks like?

Me, too. Out here we get snow, dark weather, rain for months, and they have to drive on gravel and on unpaved shoulders in RWD un-air conditioned and poorly heated tin cans.

Plus they don't make much in the way of scratch at all so this is the first change they need. When I ask the letter carriers they say that they likely won't see the new rigs for at least a year on the Left Hand Coast.

(the second thing they need is to be making lots more money because they don't make enough to deal with customers like me much less their current vehicles)

Nope. LLV's are exclusively scrapped by the USPS at end of life. I tend to think thats mostly to retain their image as a USPS only vehicle and prevent potential impersonation for crime, which is the same reason UPS has a "always scrap" policy as well.

There are a very few select examples that have been sold private party by not-the-usps, and do exist out there but there will be no great flood of EOL mail trucks. Most of them are so incredibly beat at this point that they barely work anyway.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if their horns made a quaking sound?

Originally they wanted to mainly procure ICE vehicles, because Trump. Then they changed it to mainly EVs because the reasonable people were in charge for a time. Those EVs have generally been well received by the drivers. Who knows what happens next.

Based off of memory, they didn't, and this contract was awarded to a defense contractor who built this thing that only gets 13MPG instead of the EV option we were told we'd be getting and I believe they each cost well over $100k per unit. They were forced to build more EVs as promised but these still cost $192k per truck, about as much as a Lamborghini Huracán.