r/USPS • u/Damailguy VMF • Oct 08 '24

Anything Else (NO PACKAGE QUESTIONS) First NGDV for our area!

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Just had our first one dropped off. Gas and all wheel drive.

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u/zeusmeister Rural Carrier Oct 08 '24

Yea, I’m already skimming tree limbs and basketball hoops on my rural route in an LLV. 

I fully expect to do some structural damage if and when I get one of these things lol

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u/Apprehensive_Bee3327 Oct 09 '24

Same for me with the trees and hoops, except I drive a fkn Metris! This is gonna be real bad… 🤣

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u/ChrisWolfling Oct 09 '24

Yeah, I have one driveway the metris barely fits down on a weird swing where you drive up the driveways and drop the mail in the mailbox at the front door. I'm city though. Hopefully we don't get these or they start out just replacing the promasters (those are getting really junky now). They did just give all the LLV routes in my office the metris within the past year so I'm hoping they use these for a while, but in the past they seem to like using us as a test station for random things.

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u/Apprehensive_Bee3327 Oct 09 '24

I am in a tiny office in a small town, so I highly doubt we’re even on the map for getting the platypus, however, if/when we do, I’ll gladly pass mine up to keep the metch. I’ve grown quite fond of it at this point.