Post delivery to go electric?

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Britain's Royal Mail has long been associated with the colour red but postal services around Europe could soon be going green.

That is the hope of the organisation which represents much of Europe's publicly owned postal services.

While postmen and women have for many years been replacing push-bikes with vans, a need to cut emissions has seen a rethink.

In order to help the service cut its emissions a prototype for a Europe-wide electric delivery vehicle has been unveiled.

PostEurop, the association which represents 2.1 million postal workers across Europe, unveiled an electric delivery vehicle, called the FreeDuck, outside the European Parliament yesterday (July 15).



PostEurop Secretary General, Botond Szebeny, said: "Sustainability remains at the top of our agenda."

[youwot!!!!!]

put a few bundles of letters on that thing and it looks like it will tip over.

[DGP1]

put a few bundles of letters on that thing and it looks like it will tip over.

I'd be more worried about it either blowing over in a strong breeze or some wee scroat lifting it and running off

[Lincox]

If its going to be green coloured, it might get picked up by the green refuse collectors by mistake for a wheelie bin.

[Stormproof]

I wonder which MEP(s) have their fingers in the PostEurop pie

[stokes11eg]

Called the Free Duck? you'd be quackers to drive around in one of those. it would not even carry 2 pouch bags! Truth is, we'll soon be needing lorries to caqrry all our mail.

[Lounge Lizard]

Looks like a mobility scooter to me, but that's what I'll' need soon given how my knees and back are knackered.

[SpacePhoenix]

They are only green if the power for them is generated by renewable energy. It would probably cost just as much to run them as to run a van, time you pay everyday to charge up each one x however many an office would need.

[dvbuk55]

put a few bundles of letters on that thing and it looks like it will tip over.

I'd be more worried about it either blowing over in a strong breeze or some wee scroat lifting it and running off

And of course could you get a mattress in the back

[DGP1]

put a few bundles of letters on that thing and it looks like it will tip over.

I'd be more worried about it either blowing over in a strong breeze or some wee scroat lifting it and running off

And of course could you get a mattress in the back

Sheep don't need a mattress

[Lounge Lizard]

put a few bundles of letters on that thing and it looks like it will tip over.

I'd be more worried about it either blowing over in a strong breeze or some wee scroat lifting it and running off

And of course could you get a mattress in the back

Sheep don't need a mattress

So I've heard.

[dvbuk55]

put a few bundles of letters on that thing and it looks like it will tip over.

I'd be more worried about it either blowing over in a strong breeze or some wee scroat lifting it and running off

And of course could you get a mattress in the back

Sheep don't need a mattress

So I've heard.

That tune..............................A Four Legged Friend would seem to have broader implications for the pair of you than it would for us ahem normal people

[rhino49]

They'll be expecting us to take them home and charge them up from our own power supply !

[Straight4ward]

They'll be expecting us to take them home and charge them up from our own power supply !

The sheep or the Free Duck?

[100%]

If its going to be green coloured, it might get picked up by the green refuse collectors by mistake for a wheelie bin.

leave your d2ds in it or recycling