U.S.Post Office mail delivery vans

What does the Post Offices do with those vans when they get old enough?
What engines do the vans have? I assume they have automatic
transmissions.
cuhulin

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> What does the Post Offices do with those vans when they get old enough?
> What engines do the vans have? I assume they have automatic
> transmissions.
> cuhulin
>
>


Around here they seem to auction them off the way the cops auction off old
police cars. I sometimes see them being used by courier services in large
urban areas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV


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Tegger

wrote:
> What does the Post Offices do with those vans when they get old enough?
> What engines do the vans have? I assume they have automatic
> transmissions.
> cuhulin
>

If you mean the LLVs that are based on S-10 chassis. Early units have
the 2.5 with a TH250 trans, later ones have the 2.2. They auction them
off. Locally though an average citizen cannot buy them. They will sell
them to rural carriers or to other courier services.

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Steve W.

On Mar 5, 5:33 pm, wrote:
> What does the Post Offices do with those vans when they get old enough?
> What engines do the vans have? I assume they have automatic
> transmissions.
> cuhulin

Like a previous poster stated, the ones that I've seen had a GM
platform.
I've talked to some people who have got them at an auction. Not sure
about needing to be a postal employee.

About a year ago our UPS driver came with a new Dodge/Mercedes van. I
asked her what they do with the
old ones. She told me they got crushed. Her old one had a one week old
tranny and tires that had only a few
hundred miles on them and they crush all of the van. She told me they
don't sell parts to the public or reunse
any of the parts because of courtroom liability.

You wonder why shipping costs are so high.

> wrote in message
...
> What does the Post Offices do with those vans when they get old enough?
> What engines do the vans have? I assume they have automatic
> transmissions.
> cuhulin

Search for the General Accounting Office website, and you should be able to
find what is up for sale/auction. I found it recently, but didnt make a
bookmark
for it.