Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 09/26/2018 at 09:30 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Nor snow, nor mud, nor much else, apparently.

Just Jeepin' > ttyymmnn 09/26/2018 at 09:33

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Back when roads were roads, not these n amby pamby asphalt babysitters we use.

Stop government waste: stop paving roads!

vondon302 > Just Jeepin' 09/26/2018 at 09:34

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Michigan is on it.

vondon302 > ttyymmnn 09/26/2018 at 09:35

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But not quickly by the looks of it.

facw > ttyymmnn 09/26/2018 at 09:36

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Time to buy up the rights to the BMS-1 and submit it to the USPS LLV replacement contest...

Matt Nichelson > ttyymmnn 09/26/2018 at 09:37

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Seeing this always makes me laugh a little. Dodge commercial truck, rear axle from a Ford, rear wheels from a Chevrolet. Talk about a mishmash. 

Just Jeepin' > vondon302 09/26/2018 at 09:39

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So many reasons I need to move to Michigan, starting with the UP.

benjrblant > ttyymmnn 09/26/2018 at 09:40

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Sory of reminds me of the Galloping Geese , a series of railcars built in the 1930's based on Buicks. It was an attempt to run mail via railway while reducing the expense of a full steam locomotive and the required crew to keep it running. The Colorado Railroad Museum has three functioning ones on display- pretty sweet.

vondon302 > Just Jeepin' 09/26/2018 at 09:50

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The up is glorious but damn it’s cold.

Tried camping in copper harbor in August. Froze my ass off.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > vondon302 09/26/2018 at 09:51

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Vermont never paved half of them to begin with...and have n’ t paved the other half since

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 09/26/2018 at 10:08

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NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Postal

ttyymmnn > facw 09/26/2018 at 10:10

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That looks like it was created by Gerry Anderson.

Aremmes > facw 09/26/2018 at 10:12

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The parcels go in the launch tubes, which then shoots them at doors and windows .

ttyymmnn > benjrblant 09/26/2018 at 10:12

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That’s pretty cool. It highlights just how much effort has gone into making sure the mail gets through. Rail trucks, airplanes, tracked pickups, etc. And now drones? God help us.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/26/2018 at 10:13

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I need to read some of his stuff.

facw > Aremmes 09/26/2018 at 10:14

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See, efficiency!

facw > ttyymmnn 09/26/2018 at 10:18

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Heh, it was a real thing designed in Chile in the ‘80s as a replacement for their M3s, but it turns out half- tracks weren’t really competitive at at that point. I think it may be the last serious attempt at a military half-track though.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 09/26/2018 at 10:19

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I recommend starting with Guards! Guards!. Introduces one of the most beloved sets of characters/starts one of the more popular plot threads, is after the initial teething period, and is a cracking good yarn with a little bit of everything that people like about him.

Mort and Sourcery would sort of work for similar reasons, but I don’t think quite as well.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/26/2018 at 10:21

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Thanks.

ttyymmnn > Aremmes 09/26/2018 at 10:24

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German author Heinrich von Kleist was the first to suggest using rockets to deliver mail. While editor of the Berliner Abendblätter , he wrote an article published on 10 October 1810 which proposed using fixed artillery batteries to fire shells filled with letters to predetermined landing locations of soft ground. Kleist calculated that a network of batteries could transmit a letter from Berlin to Breslau , 180 miles away, in half a day. Later in the 19th century, Congreve rockets were used to deliver mail in Tonga , but the missiles were unreliable. Hermann Oberth suggested using rockets for mail in a 1927 letter, and he lectured on the topic at a meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt in June 1928. The lecture caused many experimentalists to expect the use of rockets for mail as inevitable, and by 1929 Jacob Gould Schurman , the United States ambassador to Germany , discussed the legalities of transatlantic rocket mail with a German reporter.

benjrblant > ttyymmnn 09/26/2018 at 10:28

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Maybe at one time. Now I feel like delivered packages is almost an anomaly from the USPS.

Though if you stop and think about it for a second, the theory that you can scribble three lines of text and numbers on an object, drop it in a box, and expect it to appear at an exact location on the continent is somewhat mindblowing. 

ttyymmnn > benjrblant 09/26/2018 at 10:30

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Really, it is. And considering the cost of a postage stamp (even as much as they have gone up), it’s remarkably inexpensive. 

Future next gen S2000 owner > ttyymmnn 09/26/2018 at 10:40

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They run a hovercraft in Alaska.

Aremmes > ttyymmnn 09/26/2018 at 11:13

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That’s a very interesting tidbit of obscure history and absolutely not what I had in mind, thanks!

This is more what I’d have envisioned:

With each mail piece bearing the recipient's address on the side:

ttyymmnn > Aremmes 09/26/2018 at 11:20

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I came across that when I was writing a post about missile mail .

As for addresses:

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 09/26/2018 at 11:43

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Did you see the old novelty song I posted this morning? If you’re not familiar yet, you might be amused.

BigBlock440 > ttyymmnn 09/26/2018 at 11:43

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My favorite is the model A

ttyymmnn > BigBlock440 09/26/2018 at 12:38

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That’s all kinds of awesome.