left hand drive car

A mailman has a pretty cool job. I am not talking about the men and women who walk around to deliver mail. That is a challenging job because of weather conditions. I would hate to have to travel by foot in the rain and snow. And, then, you have to take into account that for at least half of the year it is either really, really cold outside or it is unbearably hot. This job would get old very quickly. Instead, I am focusing more on the people who get to drive mail trucks in the United States. To begin with, let me state the obvious. These people have air conditioning and get to drive between houses and mailboxes rather than walk. Clearly, they do not get the same exercise, but they stay dry and comfortable. However, there is something else that makes the driving mailman have a unique job. His or her job presents something distinctive that many people probably overlook and do not even recognize as rare. These people working for the U.S. Postal Service get to steer their mail trucks from the right hand side. Unlike people in some countries overseas who drive on opposite sides of the road than in America, the mailmen here in this country still drive on the correct sides of the street. I would assume it is difficult and strange at first to drive a mail truck all day and then to go home and drive your used left hand drive that is parked outside the front of your house. It would not surprise me that a mailman driving occasionally is not thinking and gets in the wrong side of his or her personal left hand drive car. After a long day, driving a vehicle from the right side, it only seems plausible to get confused once in a while. There probably is training that a mailman has to attend before receiving his or her certification. It makes perfect sense that it would present a set of challenges to continuously interchange between the mail truck and the used lhd at home. It becomes habit to drive a certain way because people become accustomed to what they are exposed to with the greatest frequency.