How am I going to know when my mail gets delivered, both at work and at home, when the USPS switches from the Grumman Long Life Vehicles they use now to whatever non-gas vehicle they’re going to use? I mean everyone that I know knows when their US mail has arrived because all US mail trucks have that distinctive throaty noise to them. You don’t need to look out any window. You *know* your mail has arrived.
I asked this question to a couple co-workers today and they laughed their butts off. I didn’t know what was so funny. I’m being serious.
Nature Woman 
Aug 06, 2008 @ 20:45:09
I haven’t heard about the USPS changing vehicles. I guess I need to lidten to the news more! I’ll be trouble too because like you I can hear their truck coming long before I see it.
Aug 06, 2008 @ 21:26:13
Pam, I have not heard about USPS changing vehicles, either. But, guess what? I never know when my mail comes unless I hear the snap of the mailbox closing. Our USPS drivers use their own vehicles – Chevy Blazers, little station wagons, whatever…
So I laughed at you, too. LOL!
Aug 06, 2008 @ 22:58:50
The USPS in my area uses minivans to deliver mail, so there is no Grumman noise. I still know the mail has come if I hear the carrier walk up on our porch. UPS trucks are still the same behemoths, though.
Aug 06, 2008 @ 23:42:43
I have a serious solution. I think you can invent the gadget that makes that noise and of course, immediately patent it. Then sell it to USPS. You’ll be richer and happier 🙂
p.s.: Don’t forget me after you got rich.
Aug 07, 2008 @ 01:28:54
I think you can buy a device that rings a bell in your house when the mail comes — people with rural boxes use them so they know when the mail arrives down their long driveways.
Just a thought! 🙂
But, I hear you . . . we always know when the mail has arrived too.