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Boeing 727 USPS US Mail, similar style to the Schuco/Schabak 1:600 planes, but much better detailed partly as this is larger than those at about 1:400. Manufacturer unknown.
Mail Van
USPS
Othello, WA
December 2014
©Bryn Erdman. All Rights Reserved.
Mesa redonda: o contexto da criação do curso de Medicina na USP Bauru. Presença de autoridades do municÃpio de Bauru e da FOB USP.
Data: 29.02.2018
Local: FOB USP
Crédito: Denise Guimarães/ Tecnologia Educacional FOB USP.
corredor das salas de aula | FAU USP
[Students rooms level at Architecture college of University of Sao Paulo
Projected by brazilian architect Vilanova Artigas]
[More images:
See others images of Sao Paulo at
www.flickr.com/photos/stankuns/sets/72157622271259951/
other images of Artigas work at
www.flickr.com/photos/stankuns/sets/72157606028775056/
and images of others 'paulista school' architects like as
Oswaldo Bratke www.flickr.com/photos/stankuns/sets/72157606028810522/
Paulo Mendes da Rocha www.flickr.com/photos/stankuns/sets/72157606032929161/
and Lina Bo Bardi www.flickr.com/photos/stankuns/sets/72157606028747388/]
The American market is probably the most hostile on Earth when it comes to cabover trucks - the cabover semis have largely gone extinct here and the design only holds on in lighter classes where their space efficiency is more immediately valuable. I see more cabovers in the New York area than I see anywhere else, and I doubt that's a coincidence. I really wish that Americans would embrace this design more - aside from being better looking than most conventional cabs, I honestly believe they make more sense in many cases too.
This particular example is a Ford Cargo, a cabover that proved particularly popular with the United States Postal Service. Ford doesn't build these for the US market anymore, but they can still be found new in Latin America and India where they are still built in substantial numbers.
Until now, I never noticed that American post office collection boxes were in the same shape as R2D2.
The United States Postal Service, which has recently been involving itself in promotional tie-ins with major commercial enterprises (thanks to the stupid idea of making it pay its own way back in 1971), is now involving itself with George Lucas's enterprise. Most such collaborations demean the Postal Service, in my opinion, but this one is harmless fun.
The USPS is celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the release of the original Star Wars movie in 1977, with a special souvenir stamp sheet due out next month. This must come as a shock to some serious film lovers, who regard the release of Star Wars as the moment Hollywood became enamored with special-effects blockbusters and thus took the road to perdition. (Nonsense. Star Wars was still an intelligent movie. Animal House ruined Hollywood because it kicked off an era of frat-boy/teen movies, but that's another Web page.)
Anyway, the Post Office has begun planting mailboxes with the image of the loveable droid R2D2 all over the country. This one was on FIfth Avenue in New York, and and it certainly caught my attention. But then, I'm a hapless suburbanite. The folks nearby, obvious New Yorkers to the core, can't be bothered to notice.
Perhaps the USPS should have put these mailboxes in suburban New Jersey, where nothing happens and people are more easily fazed. :-)