Re:Why the new USPS mail trucks look so weird
by diggan on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @11:53AM
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> I suspect Sweden and Spain are like the UK, and not the US, in this respect.
Not really. The country side in Sweden at least have mailboxes on the kerb for everyone, it's really common. And the mail workers still seem to manage dumping the mail into there without leaving the car, without having a specialty designed car for it.
In the UK, we have letterboxes in our front doors. Nobody can drive up to them (mine is up two flights of steps!). So, last-yard post delivery is done on foot, and vehicles are used to deliver the postmen (and in urban areas, postmen will travel from the delivery office by foot or bicycle). The vehicles can thus be normal vans.
In the US, they have mailboxes on posts by the kerb. Postmen can drive right up to them to deliver the post. There, it makes sense to have specialist vehicles.
I suspect Sweden and Spain are like the UK, and not the US, in this respect.