Rise in Attacks on Mail Carries Has Union Demanding Action – WTTW (Chicago)

Earlier this month, a 52-year-old mail carrier was shot and critically wounded on the Northwest Side in an attempted robbery in the middle of the afternoon. Another letter carrier was robbed at gunpoint just 15 minutes later. Elise Foster, president of Branch 11 of the National Association of Letter Carriers, which represents more than 4,800 letter carriers in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, said that in the past 12 months, 96 of her members have been assaulted in some way.