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You're telling me the mail service is handing you this highly accessible Akira Toriyama-esque piece of gold and you're spitting in their faces?!?!

Not only that, they have more cargo space for mail, have a larger front front windshield so they'll be able to see better as they drive, and they're electric!

Plus, you know how old the previous trucks were? Half of em didn't have A/C.

I'm glad they're investing in the postal service, especially considering they've been trying to nerf it for years now and pushing us to use private delivery companies that are worse and for-profit.

In fact I want MORE cars that look like this! I hope every car in the future looks like this!

okay so like, i need you all to understand something:

THIS.

THIS IS WHAT ACCEPTANCE OF DIFFERENCE LOOKS LIKE.

IT LOOKS LIKE A FUCKING DINGUS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, BECAUSE IT IS NOT CONCERNED ABOUT FAUX-FLASHY APPEARANCES AND CRASS DISREGARD.

So the whole point, as the above person said, is that the brief was "we need something that EVERYONE, EVERYONE in our fleet can drive and use safely. We need something that can absolutely never be unwelcoming, because it is there to Do A Job and so are our employees. They are human beings, not biscuits: we do not shape and bake them to scale, we do not hire based on appearance. We hire EVERYONE. So we need to serve EVERYONE."

This is a vehicle that can be driven by almost anyone who has a legal driver's licence and at least two (2) functional arms and one (1) functional leg. They don't have to be a specific height, they don't have to be a specific thinness, they don't have to be a specific mobility level: provided you are legally able to drive a 2009 Kia Cerato, then you can drive this thing safely. Hell, even if you CAN'T drive one because you're too tall to do that comfortably? You can drive this. The only reason they didn't make it compatible with people under the 5th female or over the 95th male percentile is because, legally, those people literally AREN'T ALLOWED to drive all cars, due to basic safey concerns. They may need special cars or modified cabins - I have a friend who is under the 3rd female percentile (he's male) and he needs a specially-modified car cabin because he's legally considered unable to drive an unmodified car. So the USPS literally CAN'T design a vehicle for them, it's actually against the law. They did EVERYTHING they could.

They also cannot realistically make something that would be both fully accessible to two-armed folks AND one-armed folks because the cabin modifications made for one-armed folks are actually individualised per the customer's specifications. The thing is that most people who only have one working hand are, statistically speaking, more likely than not to lose their dominant hand (per a 1995 research paper conducted in the USA, ~51% of righties who lose one will lose their right hand, and a whopping 70% of lefties who lose one will lose their left hand). This actually makes sense: you're more likely to be doing something risky with your dominant hand, so that's the one that's more likely to get injured. If the reason for amputation or loss of function was that it was damaged in an accident, then it's skewed towards damaging your dominant hand.

What this means, though, is that for people who suffered an amputating injury of the hand (i.e. they lost the hand, rather than a finger or multiple fingers), they are statistically more likely than not to be less dextrous, less fluid, and more uncertain with that hand than would be optimal. Yes, handedness changes over time after an injury, but it's never EASIER than it would be if you'd never had to change handedness. That's ignoring that many people with "one working hand" do not have full mobility in that hand, either: for example, if you lost a hand during birth due to loss of oxygen to the limb, that is quite likely to have also caused problems for your "good" hand. So, cabin modifications for mono-handed people such as lever gear-changers, relocated or modified hand-brakes, and modified turn signals are generally optimised for an individual customer's specifications, and can't be transferred. Their driver's licence will be restricted to only using THEIR car.

Basically,

The USPS literally made The Car. This isn't just a car, oh no no. This is THE Car. This is the one, universal vehicle, the car that is closest to True Accessibility Nirvana. Barring people who literally aren't ALLOWED to drive for USPS, ANYONE can drive this.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".