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One Harvey neighborhood has learned that even the Postal Service has its limits. Mail service stopped in the high-crime neighborhood, specifically along Marshfield Ave. between 151st and 152nd Streets, almost two weeks ago when a shooting happened just a few yards from the postal worker delivering mail. Venus Jones, a neighborhood resident, said, "Between robberies and shootings and delayed police response, several things going on, that would make it unsafe." The postal carrier was shaken but okay. Said a postal spokesman:
She was unfortunately in the wrong place when some passersby broke out in gunfire. Thankfully no one was injured, no residents or the carrier. One of our supervisors called the Harvey police and they were there in five minutes to make sure she was OK. There was not much she could give, except she saw a car and she gave a description.
After the nearly two-week interruption, mail service resumed today in the neighborhood thanks to a new police escort. Local postal service officials are looking at alternatives, such as a centralized mail mailbox with separate boxes for each resident which they would open with a key. A lot of the stink over the decision to suspend service came when the postal service failed to tell the residents of the decision and the mayor's office wasn't notified by residents of the suspension until this week. Until it resumed today, residents had to fetch their mail from a local post office.
Image of a random happy postal worker via the USPS
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So, the low man on the totem pole at the Post Office gets this route I would assume.
Back in the days of "The Jungle" your job worry would be falling into a vat of baloney and getting minced to death...now it's random gun fire while delivering mail.
F that. Any place is the wrong place when "some passerby" opens fire. That statement seems like she was slacking on the job.
Now a police escort is required, wasting even more money. I say make the residents pick up their own mail. If they are prisoners on their own street, some fresh air will do them some good.
And Harvey has no problem keeping this status. After telling state and federal governments to leave and be entirely under municipal control, those officials deserve anything coming to them. Crooked bastards.
By the way, is that dude the new postal carrier? Because the birds will stop chirping if that guy has the stones to walk down any street in Harvey.
I just heard they are going to install a cluster box for this area. Let's see how long it is before that's broken into!
it is easy to target rival gang members when all you have to do is wait across from their centralized mailbox.
Sort of like how Cheney hunts eh JoeM500?