The electric trucks have a side cargo door, more space and, critically, air-conditioning, promising some long-overdue relief for carriers, who haven’t had an upgrade since the 1980s.
  • BigSadDad@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    Such a unique and fun design is going to stand out in our collective culture. Kids are going to love this thing.

  • Jumi@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 days ago

    Form follows function, who gives a shit how something looks when it’s useful?

  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    they look so goofy that I burst out laughing any time I see it, they’re just so cute! It’s like the opposite reasoning of laughing at a cybertruck but the same outcome

  • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
    1423·
    3 days ago

    These are huge upgrades over the old trucks. The proportions are sized to fit the features they need, like fast, ergonomic access to the back, and better visibility than any other car on the road.

    Good on them for designing a good vehicle instead of letting some sports car fanatic dictate a concept car idea.

    Taking courage in your design will win over the car fanatics in 5 or so years when the next design trend starts, and the reliability and function will mean that these will keep looking good 30 years from now.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    691·
    3 days ago

    They look a bit futuristic in a weird way, to me. I think they could end up looking iconic.

    • keyez@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 days ago

      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.

    • Matty_r@programming.dev
      37·
      3 days ago

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

      Food delivery bot from Flight of the Navigator

      • Kingofclubs615@sh.itjust.works
        71·
        2 days ago

        Bruh, I’ve been trying to figure out why they looked so familiar! Thanks. This has been bugging me periodically for a while.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    841·
    3 days ago

    That’s because they spend the majority of their time inside of it and work vehicles are supposed to be function over form.

    • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      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)

  • SpiceDealer@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 days ago

    Some people that realize how much of an upgrade this is. The original carriers (Grumman LLV) used the same body-on-frame chasis as the Chevy S-10 Blazer and used a GM-sourced 2.5L I4 engine (“Iron Duke”) which was infamous for catching on fire. In other words, nothing has changed in 40 years.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    18·
    3 days ago

    The ACs came none to soon. Summers are not going to get any cooler. I always feel bad for the carriers on summer days as it is.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    3 days ago

    What’s wrong with ducks?

    (Alright. Im aware ducks are rapey bastards. Most animals are, at least every animal I looked into, which isn’t that many. But we won’t be telling kids this.)

    • theangryseal@lemmy.world
      111·
      3 days ago

      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.

  • no banana@lemmy.world
    26·
    3 days ago

    Just needs a horn tha quacks and they’re all set.

    I like the truck. Looks like it’s nice for the driver!

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      45·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        3 days ago

        Wow, I never considered how I don’t see mail trucks posing as other things. Thats a fun fact.

        It’s like never seeing old Pizza Hut buildings turned into other things.