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In what it hails as the most dramatic modernization of its fleet in three decades, the US Postal Service has revealed the maker of its next-generation delivery truck, which will be built in both gasoline and electric powertrain variants.

​​When we think of the future of delivery our minds might wander toward airborne drones, but ground-based robots may play an important part in this, too. Among those is a new mail-toting machine already roaming the streets of Germany designed to do much of the heavy lifting. ​

Like most other privatized postal services in the world, Deutsche Post faced an uncertain future, but the national institution is now the dominant freight and logistics company in the world, and is looking to cement its future by developing its own fleet of autonomous delivery vehicles.

​Postal delivery in London is about to get a little bit greener, with Royal Mail launching trials of nine fully electric mail vans. The shiny new vehicles have been built to carry out inner city deliveries, and will begin ferrying packages around the city this week. ​​

The Gate smart mailbox is a 21st century variation on the old switch-and-doorbell mailbox alert setup that not only lets you know when the post arrives and prevent wasted trips to the curb, but is also intended to combat theft.