By JACOB BOGAGE | The Washington Post | Published: May 24, 2021 When Philip Rubio saw his new mail truck, the first thing he noticed was the missing rearview mirror. The Grumman Long Life Vehicle the U.S. Postal Service s now-ubiquitous delivery van, which first hit the streets in 1987 didn t have a back window. It didn t have an air bag. It didn t have air conditioning. The heating system was unreliable. But shoot, if it didn t look good. Everybody has their own LLV story, said Rubio, a retired letter carrier and a professor of history at North Carolina A&T State University. I think it was a morale booster for letter carriers to see a new vehicles, to see a fleet, and to see something that looked good on the street.
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Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee are moving ahead on their latest package of postal reform legislation and picking up bipartisan support in the process.
The committee will markup the 2021 Postal Service Reform Act in a meeting this Thursday. Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) previewed her bill as a “discussion draft” at a hearing in February, and got Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s feedback on some of its key points.
Maloney, along with Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), introduced the final text of the bill Tuesday afternoon, ahead of Thursday’s markup meeting.
The bill is also co-sponsored by Government Operations Chairman Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) and committee member Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-Va.).
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U.S. Postal Service mail trucks sit in a parking lot at a mail distribution center in 2015 in San Francisco. The Postal Service is looking to replace their aging fleet of mail delivery vehicles because of years of maintenance and safety issues, and changes in mail volumes. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)