Amid recent instances of numerous letter carriers being robbed on the job in the Chicago area, some local lawmakers are now demanding that more be done to keep postal workers safe.
A letter carrier who does not want to be identified told NBC 5 she was robbed while delivering the mail a few weeks ago on the city’s West Side.
“A young man followed me down the block and demanded the arrow key, and I gave it to him because he had a gun,” she said. According to Mack Julion, the president of the National Association of Letter Carriers-Chicago, Branch 11, a total of 20 letter carriers have been robbed in the Chicago area since August. Five letter carriers were robbed in the last week, with master keys being the target of the thieves.
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