Here you can see something of the challenge of delivering mail in the USA with a left-hand drive vehicle. Don't be misled by the boat parking business -- that is just a distraction. Though I did want to have footage to prove to the postmistress why I was delayed.
Although rural carrier associates of the USPS are expected to acquire right-hand drive vehicles, the regulation is based on a certain number of hours of service, after which one must have right-hand drive. The reasons for this regulation should be obvious. There are, however, several work-arounds, the main one of which is called "straddling". This is legal for postal carriers under specific circumstances, but I can tell you it is completely not to be recommended. While I was working for the Bainbridge, Pennsylvania, post office, I delivered mail from my Toyota Sienna -- a left-hand drive vehicle, while seated between the bucket seats, reaching to the foot pedals with my left foot very far extended, and with my right foot in the passenger wheel well. I placed the mail on the passenger seat and delivered through the window OVER the undelivered mail. This "worked" but was slow and difficult -- and painful. For a short period I worked in the morning at Bainbridge and then drove to Quarryville to deliver their. Initially, I had an LLV to use at Quarryville, as I did at my home office of Millersville, but one day the ball joint in the front steering broke while I was out on the route, and although I did manage to bring the truck back to the office, it was no longer available; the LLV to which I shuttled the undelivered mail had problems with its fuel line, and it conked out completely, requiring repair in the field, when I was about a quarter of the way through the second half of the route. So, that was not a good day. After that I was pretty much confined to my own vehicle until the week before Halloween, when, because of a mysterious set of symptoms which proved to be, or at least included, COVID, I was essentially furloughed until I resigned at the beginning of January 2021, one year after beginning my (em/de)ployment in the postal service.
