When the U.S. Postal Service liquidated its AM General DJ-5s for cheap and in large quantities in the early '90s, the temptation to make something useful out of one was hard to ignore. This particular ...

NASA called the Electruck “state of the art,” the idea that an EV could carry all of America’s mail in a prolonged oil crisis ...

Just about the simplest street-legal motor vehicle available during its 30-year production run, the two-wheel-drive Jeep DJ is best known as a U.S. Postal Service delivery vehicle. Here’s one in a ...

Found in a Denver-area self-service wrecking yard, this ’83 DJ-5 features GM Iron Duke power, sliding doors, and Chrysler automatic transmission.

Project POStal—my 1976 Jeep DJ-5 Postal Jeep—is officially dead. The Jeep, which started out as a hopeless pile of rust when I bought it two years ago for $500, came back to life last spring and ...

I came of driving age in the early 1980s, when running ex-USPS Dispatchers were available for hilariously cheap prices, and several of my acquaintances used them as daily drivers at that time. This is ...

First, a little history on the Postal Jeep. Before the USPS started using the Grumman LLV mail trucks that you still see on the road today after almost 30 years of service, it used the Jeep DJ, also ...