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From: frye@cuuxa.UUCP (frye)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Mail trucks without tags
Message-ID: <229@cuuxa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 20:00:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 20:00:40 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 02:41:45 EDT
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Organization: AT&T Technologies CSD, Lisle, Il.
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The mail "jeeps" (AMC or the .5 ton AMGeneral) in Lisle don't
even have plate brackets on them. I don't know if the post
office doesn't have to buy license plate anymore or not. They
used to display plates on the post office vehicles but the
numbers on the government type plates were always the same as
the number painted on the truck itself. Does anyone know if
the post office has been released from the requirement of
displaying plates on their vehicles? These trucks never leave
town anyway so maybe that is a stipulation or something. Any
notions out there?


'Nother topic: A friend of mine seriously considered buying
an old retired post office "jeep" a couple of years ago.
It seems that someone contracted to buy the played out jeeps
and rebuild some of them. The idea was to take parts off the
real (machanical) junkers and put them on the ones that still
ran good, give them a paint job and sell them. (right hand
drive and all.) I told him a friend of mine runs a garage. He
takes care of the post office vehicles here in town. I didn't
like what I saw (this mail jeep sagging as it was raised buy
the floor hoist, alias grease rack.) in these jeeps and told
Big Bob (prospective jeep buyer) that I couldn't recommend
latching on to one of those junks. I just get the idea that
those jeeps are pretty well beat when the post office turns
loose of them. Maybe that answered the question above. They
just don't think them junks will stand the extra weight of
a license plate(-;). Crushed down, they might make a nice
paper weight though......










Neither rain nor sleet or a played out jeep......




Keep the greasy side down & the painted side up,


T. R. Frye