Thank you for posting that! I did not know that they had managed to turn that around!
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Delivery methods vary by neighborhood. In rural areas a postal worker will often drive up to a roadside mailbox but in other places they’ll walk door to door on foot delivering a satchel of mail at a time either from a truck parked nearby or from a local postal relay box.
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No, postal carriers in the US do not ride bicycles. Impractical, even in cities. For example, it snowed 7" the other day and the post our carrier is based out of is about 4 miles away. Plus, he covers about half our neighborhood of 700 houses…
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I hear you but the number of houses isn’t a problem. Nor is the snow really. That’s an issue of snowplows clearing the road for cars. Into the cycle lane. And leaving the pavements, which is actually where most posties cycle, uncleared. This is a big issue for older people in particular who depend on local shops and services.
But I will bang on about liveable cities ad nauseum if allowed to so I should shut up!
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Where i am snow mostly never happens*, when it does chaos ensues.
The previous time snow happened enough to be an issue, fun ensued.
My local train station, it’s elevated, and crosses a major road at 90 degrees (6 lanes total). The council salted all the road lanes, left the pedestrian pathway under the same bridge untouched. Water drips from the above rail lines froze the pathway solid**, which lead to the first lane of road getting comandeered by pedestrians, which caused further hilarity.
I do find it a bit odd that roads get salted but major pathways do not…
*SE UK, we get enough snow to settle maybe once every 3-5years or so
**like 1cm thick ice
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IIRC the postmaster used to be a cabinet secretary who could be replaced at any time 
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I forget what it was, and I’m too lazy to look it up right now, but there is some kind of a catch-22 involved in his position
As a parent (and now a caretaker of elderly parents) wherever I go I first notice any sharp corners where someone could bang their head and end up in the ER.
From the angles I saw in the announcement I assumed in close inspection they would have rounded edges and corners. Now it’s pretty clear they just cut metal and attached panel against panel and called it done.
Like I assumed it would be more refined as a mass-market product than the impractical-seeming first-impression.
I can imagine the sort of “make the tip of the rocket pointy so it looks badass” kind of conversation, and engineers just cringe whenever he says confidently “turns out there’s no real reason why rockets need to have a rounded nose.”
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I no longer see a truck. He should go with the 2019 version.
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