Fox Business
The U.S. Postal Service has confirmed that it plans to award one or multiple contracts for the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle by the end of this year.
The Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) will replace the long-serving Grumman Long Life Vehicle, which went out of production in 1994, but has soldiered on at great maintenance cost all these years. Approximately 180,000 vehicles will be purchased over five to seven years at a cost of $6.3 billion.
The USPS had been aiming to make a decision last year, but had do delay several steps in the process, most recently moving the deadline for NGDV production Request for Proposals to July 14, due to COVID-19. An analysis of the proposals and negotiations with the bidders will now ensue. USPS won’t comment on the specifics of the process, or what automakers are left, but three candidates remain, according to Trucks.com. More
They’ve already started using them.
They’re Mercedes.
My mail carrier showed up in one today.
She’s not happy with it except it has ac and heat.
She’s also a little annoyed that they did this when they have much more serious problems.
beachmom,
Those are probably test prototypes.
Where did USPS specify the vehicle must fit between tomb stones to collect mail in ballots? I didn’t see it mentioned, but suspect it’s a priority feature. Demanded by NanP, who controls budget appropriation bills.
The post office could use jet powered vehicles, it still would not speed up mail delivery.
Do they really need new trucks just to deliver junk mail?
I thought the Post Office was broke. 🤔
Our PO is is using a 25 year old Tacoma, driving the wrong way down our “streets” so she can reach the mailboxes. Seems to work fine.
They send all my mail 225 miles east before it comes back west or goes on. It can take 5 days for a letter to go 50 miles west of me….BRILLIANT!….2000’s right hand drive CJ7’s here….or Sancho on a burro, but he brings coffee beans too….
….they should be easy to put on new Fed X, UPS or Amazon graphics. The postmaster here at this one horse town had some back surgery before they go tit’s up….He’s a good company man and is being tight lipped….
I think we should let the Mormons and the Seventh Day Adventists deliver the mail. They come by pretty much every day anyway.
🙂
The USPS should jump right ahead right to AI-directed delivery drones. Quad-copters for light stuff and octo-copters for bulky things.
Hmm. That reminds me. It’s been a while since I’ve gone to the range with my shotgun.
Mules for Jackasses!
…. “payload capacity of 1,500 pounds, ceiling height of 6 feet, 4 inches, an overall length of 19 feet” Why does the USPS need a monster truck?
If I mail a letter to my next door neighbor it goes sixty miles twice to a sorting center and back.
Anybody else see a small inefficiency there?
Lowell- Right???
When I lived in CA, whenever I mailed my friend a bday card, it would go about 30 miles north of us, come back to the humongous post office that was between our towns, and then get sorted and sent to her, 7 miles away. Took 3 days. lol.
Now if they would design a system to deliver the correct mail to the correct house I would give them a high five!
My guess is that they will pick the ugliest contender.
They all look like unsecured ballot boxes to me.
The USPS should save some $$$ and buy used Amazon delivery vans off eBay.
The USPS should save some $$$ and buy used Amazon delivery vans.
PROTOTYPE?!
They’ve been losing my mail around here with those for a few years now! 🙄
I’ve been a male man for 66 years.
@ Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH B Woodman,
Nope. Not a prototype.
That’s what they all have now.