Brit Reacts to America's Most Iconic Delivery System - Grumman LLV
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We take our mail very seriously. Don't mess with our boats and don't mess with the mailman. They come through for us, despite our weather being super hellish a lot of the time with blizzards, heat waves, you name it and we do appreciate them for it.
There's a scene in Babylon 5 where Zack cautions Garabaldi about messing with the post office so yeah, even in the future.
Don't forget when they assigned Marines to guard the mail in the 1920's
So, don't they deserve a working heater?
@@sherryford667you clearly missed the part where the post office has to go through the bidding system for the defense contractors.
Sure they deserve it no question, but good luck getting getting it for them.
As a defense contractor myself, I understand the process. It's tough but not impossible.
This video was spot on lol. As a USPS mail carrier of 6 years now i can tell you unequivocally that driving one of the LLV's over 50mph is one of the most dangerous things you can ever do. The description in the video was 100% correct, i seriously thought the damn thing was going to rattle itself to the bone and i would be left with nothing but a steering wheel left in my hand while everything disintegrated around me lol. Loved the vid and the reaction! Keep up the awesome work ✌
Thank you for your service, I was a carrier in Lansing Michigan in 20 below zero before wind chill LLVs are FREEEEZEEEERRRRRRSSSSSSS ON WHEEL THE HEATERS ARE JUNK
To anyone not in the US, you need to understand these things (LLVs) are everywhere. You will see them everyday, probably multiple times.
I miss the mail jeeps they should have had a new motor and transmission put into one . Little 4banger fuel injected system.
EHHH-VER-Y-WHERE!
The ubiquitous LLV.
I never thought about who makes/made those before. I just figured it was a GM thing or something, because this type of vehicle would be right up their alley.
Nope.
They're so ubiquitous here. You stop seeing them after a while.
US Mail trucks are as iconic as the yellow school buses! They are part of our culture and unique to the US.
I grew up in a small town of about 500 people in Washington state USA. The postmaster for our little US Post Office was busted by the Federal Postal Inspectors for stealing cash money out of birthday cards before they were delivered to the recipients. She was convicted of the crime and sent to federal prison. Tampering with US mail is serious business.
Tried to report a similar situation (grandmas letter opened upon delivery, cash gone) and got a slew of angry postmasters jumping down my throat. Obviously not gonna get mad at all of them for one bad apple, but this video does show why things are getting loose in USPS. The harder things get the more cracks start to form.
*Obligatory thank you to all the good USPS workers
I showed this to my husband, he is a mail carrier for USPS. We live in Florida and the trucks get so hot, those plastic grocery bags they give out for food drives have melted together. They don't care about the carriers. They just tell them to drink water, but he drinks gallons daily during the summer, doesn't stop his skin and organs being cooked alive in the LLVs.
He should have came to Michigan at 20 below LLV FREEZER ON WHEEL
I was a mail carrier in Minnesota for eight years, in the summer we'd call them easy-bake ovens. In the wintertime with the heat on full blast, my drink would freeze solid even if it was right next to the heater
People may not know, but you do NOT mess with the Mail Delivery Person. It is almost automatically a FELONY to mess with one!
Ahhhh, geez, this was funny. My Dad was a career postal employee. Not a mailmam (or carrier, as they're officially known.) No, he started as a counter clerk, serving customers, and also sorting mail. Over the years he worked his way up to supervising a station. (I.e., a local PO.) He had some crazy hoops to jump through. For instance, as employees worked for the Federal government, he couldn't just fire a jerk. No, he had to issue umpteen written warnings, and document everything. One mail carrier he actually had to TAIL ON HIS ROUTE, to get evidence that at every bar the guy delivered mail to, he paused to have a drink or two. (There were a lot of bars. Rough section of town.) Dad had to take photos and everything. Talk about a pain. The talk at dinner was pretty sulphurous for the month or so it took to get rid of the idiot.
So he had it EASY, coming for a carrier
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Believe it or not, reaching into someone’s mailbox and stealing a letter addressed to someone else is REALLY serious. “Mail Crimes” are big felonies most of the time. Thanks for sharing your videos.
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And not just ANY felony either..a FEDERAL felony lol
I drive a LLV every single day as a mailman, and mine is older than I am ( I’m in my late thirty’s) and has over 820, 000 miles on it and still kicking
My dad was a retired letter carrier. You always here the letter carriers getting chased by dogs but my dad only had a few encounters with dogs so regardless of how much mail he had to carry he always put a large box of dog biscuits in his bag considering he had a walking route. He walked from the station walked his entire route and walked back to the station regardless of the weather. When he retired they divided his route up in to 4 different routes because no body could do his route in the same time frame like he could. On the upside, the people on his route took care of him considering every Christmas he brought home all kinds of gifts that the people on his route gave him. For 35 years there wasn’t a Christmas where we didn’t get multiple fruit cakes among other stuff he brought home.
Fun detail: American mail trucks have the driver's seat on the right, the British side, instead of the usual left like other American cars. This lets the driver reach mailboxes that they stop in front of from their seat. They're the only vehicles you see normally in the U.S. that have the steering wheel on that side. This is presumably another reason that driving then on the freeway is so darn difficult.
I've known for a few years that USPS has their own law enforcement.
My daughter found a few pieces of a torn up birthday card fluttering around the neighborhood during a walk. Being a good citizen, she decided to clean up. After a while, she realized there were lots of pieces from several cards, and the envelopes too. She decided it would be fun to put them together and see if she missed any.
She ended up realizing they were from several different states, and some were for people from other towns. It was then she told me, and asked what to do with them. She had all the pieces in a plastic bag. I took the bag, and the next day told our carrier, and asked him if it should be reported to FBI, or local police
He said he should take it, because they have their own investigators.
Later, he told me, though I wasn't supposed to know, they caught an employee who was stealing birthday cards during sorting, because grandmas send money. The employee was prosecuted, and the people they received addresses for, from the pieces, were notified. So, that's my personal experience.
It made me think of the movie The Postman, and the scene where he's reading mail people will never get. The baby tooth makes me cry.
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somebody else posted that they lived in a small town where someone got caught stealing money out of birthday cards. wonder if it's the same town.
@@everwhat013 there are a lot of small towns, and USPS employs a huge number of people. Some are bound to be discovered as substandard. I imagine every year, a few people are discovered doing wrong.
I learn so much on this channel. Wow. I always thought the trucks looked so uncomfortable especially in summer when its 110°F out and they dont have AC in them.
Our postmen use to deliver kids to grandparents and live chickens...look that up 🤣🤣
I drove and delivered post in one of these LLV (long life vehicles) for 6+ years for the US Postal service here in Ohio. Its the hottest/ coldest frickin vehicle ever. But it was fun driving it anyway.
27 years with the postal service….everything is true!
I was a walking Letter Carrier most of my Post Office time. 20 miles west of Chicago during the 'Blizzard of 1978/79. It was brutal. We had a daily temp of -40 degrees F., with wind chills around -60 degrees F. (That was on my 20 mile a day walking route) I would be called in on my day off to drive one of the NEW LLVs. Death traps. No heater, no working windscreen wipers or defrosters, sometimes you would get frozen in by the doors being frozen shut. No working lights (found out later the factory had forgotten to attach the wires to the tail lights) and these were NEW fresh from the factory. The Postal Inspection Service has the highest crime solved rate in the country- even a higher rate than the FBI. I had a customer complain that a mailman driving a 'sportscar' was stealing mail. I had to use my own personal car to carry mail- it was a British Triumph Spitfire- because we didn't have enough working LLVs, do to breakdowns. The USPIS ripped me apart, climbed up my ass, only to find out that I was not the guy- but for weeks I was followed home, and photographed. The USPIS always gets their man..
Lewis, those Jeeps and the LLV also had to be Right-Hand drive like your British vehicles to be able to put mail in rural mailboxes.
Right hand drive but still drive on the (American) correct side of the road. I trained on an LLV earlier this year but decided the USPS wasn't my cup of tea. Everything the guy says is true. It's not anything like driving a standard automobile and the temperatures inside can be brutal.
Former rural carrier here. That the rolling death trap is still operational is amazing. They take a beating, get driven to the ground, get sent to the vmf (the mechanics), and come back only to get driven back into the ground again. Office I worked at had one that was still operational after a rollover. That being said, they are long overdue for a replacement. Before, they all randomly catch themselves on fire. Also, the cold wasn't too bad. I could bundle up. The heat, though, was awful. It turns into a hotbox. I was so red from the heat on a 108-degree day that the girls at the gas station drug me into their walk-in cooler when I stopped by. Because the government and higher ups in USPS didn't think AC was necessary. For some really interesting read, look up how the usps is actually figured into doomsday scenarios.
If you missed it, he made the old USPS motto: "Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep the postmen from their appointed rounds.” If you can't say something nice... I just remembered a thing that happened in the 1980s - people "went postal." Sadly, people went into post offices and shot up the place (usually a former employee). Happened so many times, "going postal" was the slang for going crazy. Not sure if people these days have heard that phrase or if it's just a blip of history?
I had heard the phrase! I hate to say I was unaware of where it came from. Wow...
Oh, we remember..
Those of us who saw it happen.
That's why I'm happy to pay a bit more for a stamp these days.
Mom was a career worker. 24 yrs in a distribution center. Being in the postal service is rough. It is a government entity- the state pays the insurance.
Your WRONG.... USPS never had a motto, I was a carrier. They told us that during orientation, Is they've never had a motto.
@@Michiganshorts-2DOGS it's an unofficial motto, but it's associated because the original Herodotus quote was inscribed all over the NY post office in Manhattan when it was designed.
The new OshKosh delivery trucks will start to be delivered to the USPS starting in June of this year. They are building 160,000 of them. So when you see this new funny-looking truck all over the United States soon, you will know it's from Wisconsin, the home of all things Cheese and Bratwurst. Hmm...I wonder if they come pre-equipped with a grill for cooking Bratwurst on the go? 🤔
Doubt it; it would be seen as an "unnecessary cost."
Postman's Motto "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."
Fun factoid... Back when the Pony Express started and they were riding through hostile environments, most of the rider were not only under 18 but were put to the head of the line if they were orphans!
Actual ad language. "WANTED: young, skinny, wiry fellows, not over eighteen. Must be expert riders, willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred."
Remember that the ancestors of the USPS were the Pony Express and the Wells Fargo stagecoach lines. When you keep that in mind, of course we have military contractors making mail trucks.
I worked @ United States Postal Service as a causal Carrier in the 90's. The LLV ( Goverment long life vehicle) have been trashed vehicle from day one. In Michigan weather drops to -20 f/28.8c, and LLV in tin? FREEZER ON WHEELS😢😢😢😢
Also, a few decades ago a postal worker snapped. Went into their work (post office) and opened fire on their coworkers. Killing many of them. Hence the phrase (going postal) on someone smh. Sad but true.
Re: Working for the USPS. While I have never worked for the post office, a term came into popularity in the 80s and 90s called “going postal.” It basically means snapping and raging at someone that has been bothering you for years but you keep holding it in letting that anger grow and grow. It’s a reference to the shocking amount of times a postal worker decided to end it all by going into work armed to the teeth and killing everyone in the post office. It happened way too frequently back then. So if someone were to tell you that Jack is going postal, then Jack is so consumed by rage, he’s likely to go on a murder spree to relieve his anger and rectify misconceived wrongs done unto him.
Where I live, Minnesota, our mail trucks look more like minivans.
Rural postal carriers are amazing. First of all they have to drive their own vehicles...so POS CARS. Who is going to spend any money on a car that you are going to put that many stop/start miles on. SECOND, they sit in the passenger seat while driving it. So they stretch and drive while delivering mail. For all the British readers, the steering wheel is on the left side and mail boxes are on the right side. So either sit on the left and reach outside the vehicle and open our mailbox and put the mail inside OR sit on the right side and still drive on the left side. Neither way is easy. The little white mail cars are set up with the steering wheel on the right side and the mail box on the right side. These are not in the rural counties. My mail lady drives like this everyday to bring us the mail. I think that's why the postal workers go "postal " and kill everyone. My mail lady told me I should get a job there. I'm still laughing!!
Yup USPS city carrier. In Iowa LLV’s are ice boxes in winter and EZ bake ovens in the summer. Go Mailcat!!
So funny that you're reacting to something about mail. I just sent a small box to you, Lewis. Couldn't afford to track it, so I hope it gets to you before 2025.
I have experienced a federal search and seizure by the federal postal inspector service. 36 armed agents busted into our company in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia 18 years ago, told us to take our hands off of our keyboards and back away from our desks. Some of the owners of the organization were doing something they shouldn’t have been, and while none of us were cognizant of this, we of course were still there during the raid. Six of the seven owners of the organization ended up getting Federal Jail time.
@4:01 - Want your mind blown a little more? Chrysler was actually involved in the initial design and manufacture of the M1-A1 Abrams battle tank until General Dynamics took over Chrysler Defense Corporation in 1982, and took over manufacture in 1985...
We do have different electric and gas companies however, when you move to a new home, you have to contact the gas or electric company that serves your area. In Sacramento, we have SMUD (Sacramento Municipal Utility District) and PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric). Our area has SMUD for electric and PG&E for gas. A few miles east, they have PG&E for both gas and electric. Los Angeles has Los angeles Water and Power Company, New York has Con Ed. It all has to do with who got the contract for that area to put the lines in.
The mark of a good storyteller is to be able to tell a good story about anything. Our Fat Friend is one heck of a good storyteller.
He's right at the end, too. You don't have to know much history to figure out that the only thing the government should even exist for is national defense and infrastructure. It's a given that they will mess up everything they touch, but they are needed for some things. Just very, very few.
Yup, did 9 months in the LLV...yea its a beast... Hot enough to fry an egg on it in the summer, cold enough to freeze in, and be aware, that engine likes to start on 🔥, no lie.
My husband is a mailman and this still taught me something!!
We have multiple power companies in the US, but they don't really overlap, so where you live there's generally only one option.
The odd thing is, not all mail delivery is done with these. Rural areas require the delivery driver to supply their own vehicle. In my area, the delivery lady uses a right hand drive Jeep Wrangler. The other uses an older buick and drives it from the passenger side.
Wow... watching your videos I learn something new every day! Does anyone else show appreciation to your mail carrier at Christmas by leaving something for them in the mailbox...or am i just old fashioned that way?
I’ve left treats at Christmas with a card, or warm gloves, a knit hat and a scarf since it’s also really cold in those vehicles in the winter. In the summer many neighbors in my neighborhood watch for the mail carrier and other delivery drivers, Amazon, UPS and FedEx for example and had them cold bottles of water.
Northrop Grumman after seeing the LLV for the first time:
"This is a triumph. I'm making a note here: Huge Success. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction."
The LLV I used to drive broke down at least once a month. The dashboard fan (there’s no AC) barely worked, so during the hot, humid summer months in North Carolina, the inside of the LLV was usually around 115°-130°F. In the winter time, the heater barely worked, defrost didn’t work, and the brakes would go out from time to time.
Even not knowing this i always knew not to mess with the mailman😂😂
Okay so i posted this on his original video but i have a lot to say to this video. I have been a mailman for almost 2 years now. The LLV is literally only 2 things the hottest or coldest truck never any in between. There is no AC in it and the heat works decently most of the time. Once the weather gets below 20 degrees the heat really doesn't work well. So they invented these window covers that only have a hole in the bottom to keep the heat in the truck which helps out a lot. Also if there is any snow on the ground they lose any traction when driving. Last year there was about an inch of snow on the ground and from box to box I had to sit there spinning my tires till all the snow was gone till it would move. In the summer the trucks are about 20 degrees hotter then it is outside so when its 80 degrees outside its about 100 in the truck. I can take the heat but i wear work boots and when your driving around it feel like I'm standing on an oven i legit feel the heat shooting through the soles of my boots. I will say these trucks do break down a decent amount of time but they are almost 40 years old at this point and honestly for trucks that old I'm surprised they don't break down way more. These trucks are also pretty good for protection in accidents. Back in October of 2023 I was making a left turn and a guy tried to pass me ignoring my turn single and he hit me in the front corner of my truck as I was making the turn. The guy was on drugs and basically took the whole front bump off. All i had was an injury to my side and some back pain but that front bumper took most of the impact since its a giant piece of rubber. But now story time when I was in orientation one of the guys told us about a story with the postal inspectors. There was a drug shipment for his route and they had him deliver the drugs and waited for them to get out and get them to make a drug bust. Anther story they said was a pastor got a package miss delivered to him that wasn't his and had drugs in it. The pastor called his local police and they told him they weren't a loud to do anything about it and the pastor had to call the post office so the inspectors could deal with it. He called and they had him bring it in and the postal inspectors contracted the customer and told him if he wanted his package to come in and pick it up. They never heard form the customer dude probably knew he was going to go to jail if he went in to get it.
I used to work for a company that made sorting machines for the USPS. I have met several of these Postal Inspectors, they are pretty bada$$ people!
I am old enough to remember the mail jeeps. I had always wondered why they didn't just order newer jeeps.
Speaking of secret agent mail man there is a small building here in Cincy with em in there
I deal with alot of customers, one was contracted with the mail service. I grew to know the LLV.
I delivered mail for a while and even though these trucks aren’t great I miss driving them so much.
My mother and my brother were both mail carriers and, among my many jobs in my early adulthood, I worked for a private courier, which was fun sometimes because in the case of emergency (STAT) runs between hospitals, I got to legally speed, sometimes with a police escort.
Grummuan also makes a great canoe.
i live in a pretty sparsely populated area and our mail is delivered via jeep. looks just like a regular jeep except the seat is on the opposite side.
I worked for USPS for a few weeks. The first week is a bunch of in class boring slideshows and videos, with a couple of driving tests. All of this is done at a authorized training center. Luckily I lived close to one some people had to drive a couple of hours and rent a hotel room. Then train at the post office you'll be working from. The LLV is probably the most unsafe, uncomfortable vehicle I have ever driven. No AC, little air flow, barely strapped into a jump seat bolted down in the back, in the middle of summer in Texas breathing in a bunch of exhaust fumes.
I own a old mail jeep. They aren't kidding about it being scary on the interstate
"Don't tell me there's a jet engine in the mail truck."
LMAO at that one! Now that you've watched the video and have the description of driving this thing on the highway in your brain, think how much worse it would be with a jet engine in it!
Whaaaat...😂😂your reactions are hilarious! This channel always makes me smile.
I had one of the old Jeep 4 cylinder retired mail trucks in the early '80s. I drove it with the sliding side doors open in the Summer. I replaced the original 2 seats with high-backed bucket seats (not Ricaro-LOL), carpeted the whole back cabin, and put mirror glaze film on the back side & rear windows. It was already painted a maroon color. It had a right-side steering wheel only, so it was a blast to drive, even though the power was so underwhelming & you didn't want to get it over 55 mph due to its instability due to narrow front wheels. Vibrations, yes! It was dependable & simple. The 4 banger sounded like "tickety tick, tickety tick"
I’m glad you’re learning how backwards government can be and I’m here for it. lol 😂
The only vehicle you see that "technically can't be pulled over" and has no plates
There are at least 5 different power companies that I can choose from where I live in Texas... A better example would be water and sewage.
We have the best mail carrier. I don't know how she deals with everything from weather to animals. In the summer it might be 100 degrees out and in the winter -15. She's the nicest person and does a great job. I hope they never change her route! In general I think the USPS does a great job. There are always little things to find wrong but that's true of any business. This is about the workers. Government issues are always in question, regardless of what country you are from.
Where I live they replaced the LLV with Ford transit vans
I’ve been a postal worker for 5/6 years and yes those llv’s are the worst things. Not good in snow, and hardly any heat. Then in the summer is an oven with the smallest fan in the front.
I work for USPS and my LLV is almost 40 years old. Its older then i am
What's crazy about the postal service is that they make some employees drive their own vehicles. I see that often in the country.
Not in the usps but I did watch this in my Amazon van while en route to my first stop.
That is one dorky mail truck. 😂
A big reason the development is limited to bids from defense contractors, is that they already work for our government. If we allowed someone in our government to choose a private company, would just cause corruption via favoritism.
The IRS and USPS are like the two agencies in America that no American wants to fuck with. It's crazy how powerful they are for antiquated reasons
Our little tiny post office in Montana got busted for setting up a full bar, keno machines, pool table the works. Even had their own pool team. Billiards pool for the non Americans, not swimming.
Holy s*** My little brother bought a used one. He tricked it out for four wheeling It is built like a tank. Well I'll be d*** William s
Oath of office
Before entering upon their duties and before
receiving any salary, all officers and employees
of the Postal Service shall take and subscribe
the following oath or affirmation:
‘‘I, llllllll, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear
true faith and allegiance to the same; that I
take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that
I will well and faithfully discharge the duties
of the office on which I am about to enter.’’
For the British viewers, the Pontiac Fiero is a the kind of car that a Burberry-wearing chauv would want.
Grumman made/makes aluminum canoes too and they're very desirable.
I had a postal jeep with the roof cut off. It would pull weelies when you punched it.
9 MPG is incredibly low. To put it in perspective, a relatively inefficient vehicle nowadays gets about 20, and the best get 40+.
Fun fact: LLVs don't have airbags nor any other safety features (outside of a seatbelt) so if you get in a collision you will most definitely die if not get pretty messed up.
I was wondering why our mail truck looked like a steel plated security truck...
I got one of those shotguns here at the house,
Mossberg 500 12 ga
Shotgun, with adjustable stock for the wifey. 😁
We contracted maintenance and repair for our post office's fleet. The LLV is ugly, they rattle, they leak water, they are uncomfortable and the brake down is a lot. The body is wider than the wheel base and it's hard to determine how your wheels are positioned. Plus they're right hand drive which is hard to get used to being on left hand drive roads. Especially at highway speeds. However, they're designed to be repaired on the side of the road and are logically assembled. I've installed dozens of fuel pumps while the carrier was walking his route. Takes about 25 minutes. Everything but the wiper motor was easy. Tail lamps just pop in and out. Ours were all 88-90 2wd Chevy S-10 frames with 2.8 or 2.5 TBI engines with 4L60 transmissions. I had to do all minor repairs, road service and I went in every other Saturday at 5AM to check and top off the fluids in the entire fleet. I also had to install and remove snow chains as needed on the entire fleet and drive out to install new chains if they threw them while on the road. wh32 LLVs and several vans. When it snowed I had to be at the post office at 4AM before I went to work. The old junk needs replaced that's for sure and with AWD so no one has to pull them out of ditches in the winter.
Broooo you just keep em coming back to back and i love it bro keep em coming 👍🏽
It's basically an old Chevy S-10
I had a military jeep when I delivered mail in 96 it was my own vehicle and I was paid mileage and wear and tear if you use your own car or truck. I've driven an LLV, and I hated it. There's no air and you have a small fan in 100+ degree weather. In ice, I would rather have my mail jeep aka military jeep. Just think about this even in the snow you have to ride with the window down if you are in the city where the boxes are close together.
For a long time EVERY felony had a death sentence possibility... going down to the age of 12(thanks common law) But there were also a lot less federal crimes.
It doesn't have to be a federal crime to be a felony
Not to mention these trucks don't even have airbags
A smart company also makes the tools of peace
Cool! I actually got here at the beginning of the post! View just went to 16!
The company makes jet planes. Do they make enough of them to make a profit? The post office uses a lot of trucks, so making these trucks will be profitable enough to finance the jet planes. 9 miles a gallon is up there with motor homes and road working equipment. By the end you had 420 views.
They do, that price tag you see on those planes attached is the cost of *purchase* not production.
They make like 7-10 billion in profit each year and they aren't making the new mail trucks just the ones that got made back in the 70s
Yep. Definitely a federal offense to mess with anyone's mail. Even if you're living in the same house, married etc. If your name is not who the mail is addressed to,, if you open it, you can be charged with a federal crime.
And so it should be. As one's mail should be protected.
Thanks Lewis for another great video!!! …. But a mail truck…. mmm
funny as heck as my husband is a rocket scientist 🚀 NASA and Space Station scientist and he isn’t even freaking out like I expected he would!!😂🤣😂Great vid again!!
aw thank you honestly for the $10!!!! wait no way your husband is a rocket scientist that is so cool!! i love nasa & space
Consider this, we have hundreds of thousands of those things. The manufacturer made money
Mail is federal so if there were an emergency and the mail truck and a bunch of police were crossing the same intersection, the mail man goes first , lol.
Calling them just Grumman was correct. That’s what the company’s name was at that time before the merger with Northrop.
I currently work for the USPS as a Mail Carrier and the LLV is every bit as described in this video. Slow to accelerate, piss poor breaking. Forget driving on a Highway. Once over 55 MPH it starts shaking like a Major earthquake. Rattling, Shaking and loud AF. We've been promised a new fleet for 10 years now so it's a believe it when we see it kinda thing. While the LLV does dominate the fleet, the USPS does have newer PROMASTERS made by RAM and a small fleet of Mercedes vans. The LLV's are gas guzzlers 100%.
In Summers, the LLV is an Oven with only a small fan blowing hot air on you. (I'm stationed in Las Vegas so dealing with heat over 100 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 Celsius) in Winters it's an Ice Box. Heaters are non existent. However, the PROMASTERS and Mercedes have heat and air.
The LLV is great except that it is an ice box in the winter, it's an oven in the summer, and it cannot go over 55 mph.
I worked at a major bank’s credit card division as a fraud analyst. The bank had mailed out credit offers to a large number of people in the New Orleans area. About two months later security started receiving calls from new card holders saying they’d never received their new card but had now received a statement showing purchases. As security was forwarding the information to me from each affected card holder I noticed a pattern, they were all from one zip code. I pointed this out to our fraud investigator and she contacted the USPS Postal Investigators who set up a kind of sting operation in the postal sorting facility for that zip code. It turned out that a postal employee could feel the shape of the credit cards in the envelopes as he was sorting mail and was taking those cards and using them for a month until they were reported stolen and shut down. The guy was arrested, convicted and send to jail.
Of course we take pride in our mail have you seen the size of America? The population density of our country is nuts for its size
Canada also uses NG trucks for mail, just the larger version of it. I've actually owned two of them. In fact when I was 16 and getting my license, i learned on our 1970's version 3 speed manual with no power steering. Parallel park that sucker... made me a better driver though, so i guess the trade off was worth it?
You should try to do a collaboration video with the fat electrician. That would be pretty cool.
The US Postal Service is the only federal organization with a 100% conviction rate
general motors made the the running parts. I worked there. The made the body that's all