Everyone knows the Holiday Season is also the high season for delivery trucks winding through neighborhoods all day long, dodging cars, pedestrians, and bicycles. … all in the name of on-time package delivery.

Recently, United Parcel Service (the “Brown” UPS folks) all but admitted that their huge delivery trucks aren’t appropriate for congested urban areas and suburban streets. Perhaps you’ve seen the little — and they are little — trucks zipping through WG this year.

The drivers are wearing brown, but the little cars are white ZAP Xebras, among 42 such trucks leased by UPS across Northern California:

UPS is setting up strategic distribution nodes where vans can transfer packages to the ZAP Xebras for final delivery in smaller communities, neighborhoods and downtown areas where larger delivery vans are less efficient and have a more difficult time navigating or parking.

“ZAP vehicles are much better than full size trucks in urban areas because they can save a fleet operator money,” said ZAP Chairman Gary Starr. “Electric vehicles can also be one of the best things any organization can do to cut greenhouse gases and help the environment.”

The distribution center feeding WG (and probably Downtown SJ too) is hiding somewhere east of Almaden Expressway. The little Xebras can’t go faster than 40 MPH, and travel under Highway 87 and across Almaden Expressway, entering and exiting parts of WG along Old Almaden Road.