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sep 20 2020 United States Postal Service workers who deliver mail on Chicago’s south and west sides are threatening to halt service to select neighborhoods after a mail carrier was shot while on the job in the city’s Burnside neighborhood.
“The 24-year-old woman, who works as a United States Postal Service mail carrier, was shot at 91st Street and Ellis Avenue just after 11:35 a.m. while on the job,” ABC 7 Chicago reported earlier in September. “Chicago Fire Department officials said she was critically hurt after being shot multiple times.”The mail carrier was not the shooting’s intended target, Chicago police officials said, but her southside route put her in the middle of a neighborhood wracked by gun violence. She is, ABC 7 added, the second mail carrier wounded by gunfire while walking her route: “In March, another Chicago letter carrier was shot while delivering mail in Brighton Park. He was caught in gang crossfire and told ABC7 he feels fortunate he was not more seriously injured from a shot to the back of his head.”
Another postal worker was reportedly shot with a paintball in the same Burnside neighborhood.
On Friday, Chicago’s postal workers joined in a protest demanding that the city put a stop to the gun violence — and if they do not, Chicago’s postal workers may stop delivering mail to affected neighborhoods, per CBS 2 Chicago.
“Chicago postal workers, saying it is too dangerous to deliver the mail, are threatening to stop delivering in some neighborhoods one week after a mail carrier was shot on her route,” the outlet reported. “Postal workers and community organizers joined together for a prayer vigil Thursday near the scene of last week’s shooting.”
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