Mail trucks , letter vans , or mail trucks are the delivery vehicles used to distribute mail.
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In his article, "Right through the Post", John Hollingshead describes a mail van from the point of view of a letter navigating through the postal system:
Here we find [...] many vehicles that are really bleak, but rather want to be gay, which is made to take us to our different train station. This is a Market van, which is supplemented and raised by contract, to the department, for the payment of ten thousand pounds per year; and form the only existing link that ties the Post Office run by the rail today, to the post-trained post office in the past.
In form, post office vans such as prison vans; in color it is a mixture of black and red gloom; and in that condition is very crumbling and worn out work. Something of a hearse is also mixed in its composition, and something from the omnibus. His attitude, when not on duty, was at the end of the Bedford row, Holborn, where he basked in the sun, in the labyrinth of post, against the dead wall, searching with his friends like a retired line of Chelsea waiting for a doctor.
As explained by Hollingshead, the mail levers in England were originally horse drawn, operating along with the rail network, including the Post Office of Traveling, carrying letters between railway stations and places far from them, and between sub-post offices and offices sorting.. Some of these vans are of Brougham type. In 1880, the General Post Office began to rent larger closed-box vans from McNamara & amp; Company. This van has an elliptical spring front suspension, semi elliptical semi suspension, rear suspension, double driving seat, and headlamps a la coach mail. These are often called letter trainers, although unlike actual letter coaches they do not carry passengers. At least six regular long distances, ie, not only to and from the local railway station, mail van service from London existed at the end of the 19th century. The London-to-Chatham mail service lasted until the summer of 1908, and one mail van service departed from London to Oxford until 1909.
During World War II, McNamara's horse-drawn mail letters were reintroduced, due to gasoline rationing, but only for local work. These vans are pulled by one horse, have pneumatic tires, and are painted with Post Office livery colors. Some of them still operated in the early 1950s.
Horse-drawn mailed mail is replaced by automotive mail letters. This is a commercial van. For example, for nearly two decades, the UK Post Office purchased 50,000 lightweight Morris Minor vehicles for use as a mail lorry or telephone engine van. These Morris Minor cars became a familiar sight, and at least one survived until 1982 to demonstrate the British Telecom livery. The GPO vehicle is a special order vehicle, and is not exactly the same as Morris Minor commercial LCV. The initial series van has one seat, no heating, and headlights mounted on the front of the vehicle on the rubber wing (US: fender). Then the series is closer to the conventional LCV norms, but the differences remain. The Morris Minor van Series III GPO, for example, has a Yale lock on the driver's door.
Similarly, in the United States the automotive mail vans used by the United States Postal Service are modified commercial vehicles. From June 1929 to March 1932, for example, Ford Motor Company sold Model A and Model AA chassis to the USPS, whose regional garage would then equip them with a letter van body (in oak or white ash) painted in USPS colors. These agencies come from five companies: York-Hoover Body Company, from York, Pennsylvania; Body Company Mifflinburg, from Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania; August Schubert Wagon Works, from Syracuse, New York; Metropolitan Body Company, from Bridgeport, Connecticut; and General Motors Truck Company, from Pontiac, Michigan. In total, 400 mail vans were built in 1929 Model A chassis, 400 on 1929 Model AA chassis, 1,000 in 1931 Model A chassis, and 2,500 on 1931 Model AA chassis. One of the 1931 Ford Model A mail vans can be seen on display at the National Postal Museum in Washington, DC The first door-to-door truck was produced by Twin Coach Company from Kent, Ohio, in 1954. It was first used by Warren, Ohio, Post Office August 4, 1954, under Postmaster Sam Verlenich posing with five operators next to their truck, for a historic photo on the front page of the Warren Tribune Chronicle.
The letter vans used by USPS for local shipments since the late 1980s are Grumman LLV. LLV stands for Long Life Vehicle. This is a specially-made vessel by Grumman Corporation, whose $ 1.1 billion contract with USPS was for 99,150 vehicles in 1986. They were originally intended to last for 24 years, three times the lifetime of the letter van they replaced. LLV production began in April 1987 at the Grumman plant in Montgomery, Pennsylvania. The vehicle is built on a General Motors chassis, 175 inches long (440 cm), weighs 3,000 pounds (1,400 kg), can carry up to 1,000 pounds (450 kg) of letters, and is driven by 2.5 liters of General Motors. four-cylinder engine. In 1991, Grumman secured a further US $ 555 million contract for 43,500 vehicles.
It is sometimes thought that a postal truck of the United States Postal Service has a right to an emergency vehicle; This is not true.
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References
External links
- "Royal Mail van". AROnline . Retrieved September 22 2009 . < span>
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