By Brenda Gazzar – November 6, 2018 More than two dozen U.S. Congress members have urged the U.S. Postal Service to “strongly consider” implementing climate-control units in all their mail trucks after a postal carrier died in Woodland Hills over the summer from overheating. U.S. Rep. Tony Cardenas, D- Panorama City, spearheaded the call “for…
That boxy little mail truck in your neighborhood actually has a name. It’s called the LLV, which stands for “Long Life Vehicle” and it, along with 142,000 other LLVs, are responsible for moving most of the 523 million pieces of mail every day. But their long life is coming to an end as the USPS…
The U.S. Postal Service mail truck, with its navy blue eagle’s head and beak on the side, is a reminder that the postal carrier still delivers the mail every day, even if Americans don’t write too many letters anymore. And now, it turns out, one of the largest vehicle fleets in the country has reached…
