Cargo Van USPS Buys PM'S

BXDIVER · Dec 16, 2015

The USPS just bought 9100 Promasters. I hope this helps lower the price of parts and service in the future.

ntimevan · Dec 16, 2015

BXDIVER said:
The USPS just bought 9100 Promasters. I hope this helps lower the price of parts and service in the future.

They will probrably be the right hand drive version ..(fiat) .. they mostly use them for Curb delivery .... over 15 years experience driving a USPS vehicle here ....

OntarioVanMan · Dec 16, 2015

didn't seem to lower price of Transits when1 customer ordered 70,000 of them....just saying

xiggi · Dec 16, 2015

Who ordered that many?I had read at the end of June they had sold a little under 30,000 for the year.

Moot · Dec 16, 2015

I saw 2 USPS Pro Masters being hauled by Swift the other day. All painted up and sporting USPS decals. Didn't notice if they were right hand drive though.

scottm4211 · Dec 16, 2015

Are they being used for home and rural delivery or something else? Seem kind of big for that thought they'd use the city type vans.

Moot · Dec 16, 2015

Its the USPS. They don't care if its the right truck for the job. They can just raise the rates. Also they are helping the Mexican economy grow.
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Postal Service to buy 9,113 Ram ProMaster vans for large package delivery

xiggi · Dec 16, 2015

They might be going to bigger vehicles because online sales have increased their percentage of package delivery alot.

Moot · Dec 16, 2015

We've had USPS deliver Amazon stuff to our door on weekends.

OntarioVanMan · Dec 16, 2015

Moot said:
Its the USPS. They don't care if its the right truck for the job. They can just raise the rates. Also they are helping the Mexican economy grow.
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Postal Service to buy 9,113 Ram ProMaster vans for large package delivery

don't know how that helps the Mexican economy much?....they might be assembled there but a lot of parts are from europe and US and Canada.....just saying...
what creates more jobs?......assembled in a country or assembled with 70-80% foreign content

scottm4211 · Dec 16, 2015

Moot said:
We've had USPS deliver Amazon stuff to our door on weekends.

What'd you buy?

Greg · Dec 16, 2015

Our Post Office receives UPS shipments for local delivery. UPS drops them at the PO and then we get a notice in the box, so we can pick it up the next day.
Whenever UPS says delivery will be X day, we know it will be a day later. They have been doing this for quite some time now. Maybe this is why the USPS needs bigger vehicles, they have to finish the job UPS started.

BXDIVER · Dec 16, 2015

The ones I saw sporting usps logos were the low roof short length, and yes it was a swift truck coming out of Laredo.

RoadTime · Dec 16, 2015

Roamin said:
Our Post Office receives UPS shipments for local delivery. UPS drops them at the PO and then we get a notice in the box, so we can pick it up the next day.
Whenever UPS says delivery will be X day, we know it will be a day later. They have been doing this for quite some time now. Maybe this is why the USPS needs bigger vehicles, they have to finish the job UPS started.

I thought it would be next day also, considering it was a Sunday Amazon delivery, but there it was, right to my door.

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