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Increasingly fearful for their safety on the job, dozens of letter carriers rallied outside a Baltimore post office Tuesday afternoon for better protection. Tony Vaughn, president of Baltimore’s chapter of the National Association of Letter Carriers, which represents around 3,000 letter carriers in the region, said over the past two years that there have been 14 robberies and assaults of ...

Letter carriers, residents and community leaders gathered atSandhill Crane Park

About 30 robberies/attacks on letter carriers have occurred in the valley over the past three years, a National Letter Carriers Union spokesman said.

Members of both parties in the House of Representatives have come together to pledge their support for a proposed piece of legislation dubbed the Protect Our Letter Carriers Act.

The number of robberies of postal carriers grew again last year and the number of injuries nearly doubled, even as the U.S. Postal Service launched crackdown aimed at addressing postal crime.