Postal
Vans: big bucks and recalls
(6 August, 2008): After nearly 20 years with the one supplier, Australia Post decided it wanted to turn to Mercedes-Benz to supply vans to its fleet.
The move made news - as the quote below indicates:
"2007-08 brought three major (Mercedes-Benz) victories: the C-Class won the 2007 Wheels COTY award the company was appointed Preferred Supplier to the Australian Defence Force, negotiating to supply and maintain 1100 G-Class vehicles and won the huge Australia Post contract (from the incumbent of more than 20 years) to replace all of its iconic red mail vans with Mercedes-Benz’s award-winning Sprinters." (our emphasis)
The CEPU will be following this matter up. Watch this space...
In the meantime, if you want to read the article, click on the title:
What's also interesting to see is that one model of the Sprinter vans has also been hit with a recall: