Going Postal

Going Postal
Originally uploaded by Let Ideas Compete

Flickr photographer Let Ideas Compete posts this photo and writes:

Some Stockholm postpersons walk, some bike. This one decided to deliver Christmas mail on a bike. Theses are rugged bikes probably weighing 45 pounds (20 kgs). I forgot to check for studded tires but you definitely want studded tires to handle the ice.

Of course, most city postpeople deliver mail on foot, but use a vehicle as a staging platform.

I post this mostly to make the point that some government worktrips and jobs can be performed via bicycles, i.e., parking enforcement officers in the center city, rather than in vehicles.