Modern Vespa

The end of an era

https://advrider.com/say-it-aint-so-australia-to-replace-postie-bikes/

Thanks for sharing. I was reading and I saw reference to the replacement, a Kyburz trike. Supposedly, it'll make users feel safer. I'm sure the invalid carriage look helps!

Can't ride up to the letter boxes so easily in that. Or do a three point turn in a driveway. I trust it has a reverse.

I presume it was a committee choice without consulting the posties.

Probably more of a choice based on keeping the company in line with the green footprint that so many other companies do advertise...

Definitely, it won't work. There are so many places where only a two wheeler can fit/go.

In some places it will take a day to make the same run that would have taken three hours... Rural postie, already use cars so perhaps the tricycle may work, (then again in dirt and muddy roads who know)...

I can see the pressure and the need to move to electrics, but in the city they have already used tricycle for years, but only for the few selected runs. It is hard to replace the commodity, capacity and speed of the two wheels...

By 2025 I can see a more feasible mix of two and three electric wheels in use, but again, with a severe struggle in the rural areas with batteries current capacity...

Here in NZ we have been using Scandanavian Paxters for a few years. They have all sorts of "employee safety stuff" like audio and visual recording as they go (although the audio was turned off after complaints about privacy). There are certainly parts of the country they don't work in and push bikes are still used, and vans on rural deliveries.

I work as a postie in Oz. There is no way I could safely cover my current route with that 3 wheeled contraption.

... I doubt the committee even rides motorcycles either.

I know a postie. When I last saw him a few years ago he was doing training for one of those contraptions. I assume he's put on 30kg since giving up the push bike.

My local postie in Melbourne uses an electric(?) bicycle.

But i have seen one of the 3 wheelers in the next suburb a few times in the last year or two ...

Most footpaths are not even wide enough for the tricycle to ride on...

How does an audio and visual recording device would possibly help increase the safety???

Beside the legal (insurance side), I really don't see how your life could be safer from such devices.. With lots of people they don't even work as deterrent...

A strong gust of wind and bam! You are like a up side-down turtle.

Not on a NZ Post one, you won't. Solid as a rock, my local postie even let me ride it up and down the street. Great little 'car'.

It was all about legal requirements. "Did you really insult this customer?" "Did they really threaten to kill you for failing to deliver their parcel or were they just mildly upset?"

So essentially it is "Karen protection" ?
Can certain 'privileged' people in this world get more vicious towards those who provide a service to us?

Actually, a small percentage, get more aggressive once they found out they have being recorded without their authorisation...

But the majority tend to leave you alone once they find out...

Unfortunately as much as solid these Scandinavian buggies are, deaths do happen

This morning, in NZ:
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/12/nz-post-employee-killed-by-electric-buggy-in-tawa.html

Condolences and thoughts to the family