Just about the simplest street-legal motor vehicle available during its 30-year production run, the two-wheel-drive Jeep DJ is best known as a U.S. Postal Service delivery vehicle. Here’s one in a ...

My 1976 Postal Jeep was the least safe car I ever drove despite it being in excellent mechanical condition. The fact is, the vehicle came from the factory with only two crash safety features: a lap ...

Project POStal—my 1976 Jeep DJ-5 Postal Jeep—is officially dead. The Jeep, which started out as a hopeless pile of rust when I bought it two years ago for $500, came back to life last spring and ...

The Jeep was marketed as a utilitarian vehicle when it hit civilian soil after World War II. With things like auxiliary power take-off equipment available, Jeeps were truly capable of just about ...

We've run into Jeffery Holt's '73 DJ-5 Postal Jeep on the trail twice within the last year. The first time was while wheeling in San Angelo, Texas, in late 2005, then later at the '06 Moab Easter Jeep ...

Found in a Denver-area self-service wrecking yard, this ’83 DJ-5 features GM Iron Duke power, sliding doors, and Chrysler automatic transmission.

I came of driving age in the early 1980s, when running ex-USPS Dispatchers were available for hilariously cheap prices, and several of my acquaintances used them as daily drivers at that time. This is ...

First, a little history on the Postal Jeep. Before the USPS started using the Grumman LLV mail trucks that you still see on the road today after almost 30 years of service, it used the Jeep DJ, also ...