With juliette goodrich. Good evening. Its hard to think about the people who deliver your mail every day putting their lives at risk just to do their jobs, but we have video of a mail carrier being robbed at gunpoint, happened in oakland. Its certainly highlighting the disturbing new reality for postal workers. Guess what . Its not just a bay area problem. Nationwide there are more than 600 postal carrier robberies in 2023. Thats up 30 from the previous year. In oakland neighbors are asked to look out for the latest robber who now has the keys to strike again. Reporter the postal carrier was robbed when she was delivering mail right down this street. I spoke with another postal carrier off camera and she says incidents like this one are distressingly common and make her scared to do her job. Its a gut wrenching sound, a United States Postal Service carrier screaming after she was robbed by a man while out delivering mail in oaklands adams point neighborhood near euclid and van buren av
Two masked offenders approached the first mail carrier on Monday. One offender physically controlled the carrier, while the second offender displayed a handgun and removed the carrier's “arrow keys."
Get a Gift, Save the Stamp - My New Orleans myneworleans.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from myneworleans.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.