USPS Solicitation / Request For Information: Up to 10,000 RHD Delivery Vehicles Needed

Request For Information RHD Vehicles [PDF] Solicitation Number: RFI-RHDVEHICLES Agency: United States Postal Service Office: Supplies and Services Purchasing Location: Vehicles CMC Date: October 9, 2014 The United States Postal Service is issuing a Request for Information (RFI) to evaluate the possibility of purchasing a new commercially available Right Hand Drive vehicle to supplement its…

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Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Campaign to Dismantle the Post Office

(October 12, 2014) Guest Post by Steve Hutkins a literature professor who teaches “place studies” at the Gallatin School of New York University. This is Part 1 in a series of 3 articles as written by Steve Hutkins in 2012. These articles originally appeared on the “Save The Post Office Blog”. Steve lives in a…

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‘Parcel’ set to deliver for doormen-deprived Manhattanites

No doorman? No problem. Or so a package-delivery startup is assuring Manhattanites who have suffered long lines at the post office or had their e-commerce orders returned. The startup, Parcel, is the brainchild of Jesse Kaplan — a recent college grad who came to the idea the hard way. “I moved to the city last…

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