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Postalpete.com is a business in Galena, Il that builds and sells right hand drive Jeeps that are generally used to deliver mail. The business was created in 1995 after U.S. mail carrier Rueben Adams,a personal friend of Jeep dealer John (Pete) Wilson, ordered a right hand drive Jeep Wrangler and installed $3,600.00 in add on accessories. When asked why he wanted such accessories as leather interior, XM radio, winch and lift kit, Reuben answered "I will spend a third of my life in this vehicle so I want it nice". With that in mind, Wilson ordered two more right hand drive Jeeps hoping his dealer location next to the Galena post office would generate some mail Jeep sales. To his dismay, not one carrier stopped and looked at the broadly noted "RHD Mail Jeep" conspicuously parked at the front of his lot. Wilson says he became a little worried about the lack of enthusiasm for the RHD Jeep and decided to post them on ebay. He sold both Jeeps the first day the add hit ebay and took orders for two more. Believing the Internet was the way to market these Jeeps, he ordered 40 more and created a web-site himself with the constant aid of Web-Site Tonight. Knowing he needed a catchy name to stick in peoples minds, he used his nick name Pete and created a business name of PostalPete.com. Once he had the web-site published, he took orders for over twenty Jeeps the first month. After that, the dealership became the number one Jeep Wrangler dealer in the USA. This all lasted one year until Jeep discontinued the RHD Jeep Wrangler in 2007 with the introduction of the all new "JK" series Jeep Wrangler two door and the all new Wrangler Unlimited four door. Faced with loosing 80% of his newly acquired sales success, Wilson petitioned Chrysler to sell him all the parts needed to build a RHD Wrangler. Chrysler at this time was enjoying the newly acquired success of the hot selling Wrangler and wasn't interested in allowing Wilson to modify the Wrangler, but Chrysler was interested in doing whatever it took to selloff its inventory of the slower selling Jeep Liberty. Chrysler guaranteed they would immediately sell Wilson the parts to convert the Liberty to RHD if he would buy 100 new Jeep Liberty's from their stock pile of vehicles located at the Belvedere Assembly plant located just 85 miles down the road from Galena, IL. Wilson agreed a week before Christmas and received 118 new Liberty's (Chrysler added a few more to clean these off their books by the end of their fiscal year) between Christmas and New Years. Wilson states receiving all these Jeeps was difficult enough at this time of the year, but then getting a snow storm in January, preselling 15 new Liberty RHD in January but not receiving the promised parts until mid March really created havoc. After the initial ten Liberty's were built and thourly tested, he enjoyed success of not only selling the RHD Liberty, but also building it, until fall of 2009 when Chrysler offered a new RHD Jeep Wrangler 4 door. Thankfully he was sold out of Liberty Jeeps by that time and continued the success of selling RHD Jeeps until the introduction of the 2017 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited when Chrysler abruptly discontinued the RHD Jeep. This put Postal Pete back into the conversion business where today the company offers a factory exact clone of the RHD Jeep Wrangler 2 door and 4 door in both the JK and JL series, the all new Jeep Wrangler Gladiator pickup. the Jeep Cherokee that is a 90% factory clone along with the newly introduced Dodge Pro-Master City van with a conversion Kit done by Larry's of Georgia which allows the kit to be removed and the vehicle put back to left hand drive after it's no longer needed for the mail route.