Green Options » USPS http://greenoptions.com/tag/usps Posts tagged 'USPS' Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:30:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en My 42 cent Soapbox is Sky High http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/13/my-42-cent-soapbox-is-sky-high/ http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/13/my-42-cent-soapbox-is-sky-high/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:30:12 +0000 Jessica Gottlieb http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/13/my-42-cent-soapbox-is-sky-high/ I. Hate. Paper. Mail.

I don’t dislike it, I detest it. I don’t need yet another bill from AT&T to sit on my desk. I pay it all online anyhow. I’ve signed up for internet only billing with a few companies, but for some I’m so panicked about not receiving the email (think mortgage) that I really want it sent to my physical address.

I’ve eliminated some of the obvious junk with 41Pounds, but there’s got to be a way for me to still get traditional mail without the 42 dollar footprint (no that’s not a typo), well, someone had the idea to stop fighting the postal system and migrate to a virtual mailbox.

Zumbox.

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]]> http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/13/my-42-cent-soapbox-is-sky-high/feed/ Oil Prices Spur Postal Service to Replace 90% of Fleet With Alternative Fuel Vehicles http://gas2.org/2008/07/28/postal-service-looks-to-replace-90-of-fleet-with-alternative-fuel-vehicles/ http://gas2.org/2008/07/28/postal-service-looks-to-replace-90-of-fleet-with-alternative-fuel-vehicles/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:16:33 +0000 Clayton B. Cornell http://gas2.org/2008/07/28/postal-service-looks-to-replace-90-of-fleet-with-alternative-fuel-vehicles/ postal service

That’s 195,000 Vehicles.

The U.S. Postal service is looking to move away from petroleum based fuels as quickly as possible since, as Environmental Leader reports, a 1-cent increase in a gallon of fuel costs them an additional $8 million annually.

It looks like USPS will be getting a free fuel-cell test-vehicle from GM’s Project Driveway, which is providing select customers around the country with Equinox Fuel-Cell vehicles.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2008/07/28/postal-service-looks-to-replace-90-of-fleet-with-alternative-fuel-vehicles/feed/ La Poste Puts Electric Car to Work http://amystodghill.greenoptions.com/2007/04/26/la-poste-puts-electric-car-to-work/ http://amystodghill.greenoptions.com/2007/04/26/la-poste-puts-electric-car-to-work/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:23:16 +0000 Amy Stodghill http://amystodghill.greenoptions.com/2007/04/26/la-poste-puts-electric-car-to-work/ The French postal service (La Poste) has ordered up 10,000 electric delivery vehicles.

La Poste will phase in the electric vehicles over a five year period and will get their first shipment of 500 in 2008. They've been testing eight electric models in Paris and in Bordeaux since 2005 (which must have gone really well considering the order). Manufacturers expected to bid on the request include French transport groups SVE and Bollore.

There's no word as to how many of the 60,000 non-electric vehicles in the French fleet will be replaced, but government officials are hoping the prominent visibility of these new delivery vehicles will encourage the public to begin to phase out their dirty modes of transport as well.

Although they're going to have to work a little harder if they want to catch up to the United States Postal Service. The USPS already has 37,000 alternative fuel vehicles and they're continually conducting research on new ways to make delivery state-side more enviro-friendly. Afterall, the mail must go through. "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night" … nor global warming!

Via WBCSD

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