US Postal Service's new mail truck delivers mixed bag of responses

Six years in the making, the distinctive vehicle has been labelled an ugly duckling by some of its kinder critics

When the United States Postal Service unveiled its futuristic new mail truck, it must have been hoping for a positive response. After all, there hasn't been a new USPS truck since 1994 and designers have been working on the upgrade for six long years.

But images of the new delivery vehicle, delicately posed in publicity shots against leafy backgrounds evoking the American suburban idyll, generated one emotion above all. Hilarity.