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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.

People like JoeM500 don't need to worry about vehicle stickers this year, but the rest of us motorvatin' four-wheelin' city dwellers have just days to go until we're at risk of one of those $120 "You Forgot To Get Your Sticker" tickets. Did you get your reminder in the mail? Yeah, neither did we—and WBBM is reporting that we're not alone.

Postal workers near Madison, Wisconsin are facing a new nuisance while trying to deliver the mail: wild turkeys. The birds have started attacking letter carriers by pecking them, poking them with their legs, and scratching them.

Ugh, Chicago's post office is the worst. No, literally, it's still the worst in America when it comes to in-town deliveries and one-day service. At least we're improving?

Besides free booze at office parties, too much rich food, and the stress of gift buying, the holiday season also brings a couple of music-centric certainties: "Best Of" lists and benefit concerts. Keep an eye on Chicagoist for the former, and break out your taste for lutefisk tonight for the latter. Schubas will play host to a show benefiting the Swedish Covenant Hospital and featuring a lineup ripe with Chicagoist faves, playing both original music and covers of Swedish artists. The idea s to raise some dough for the Northwest Side hospital that is trying to advance a holistic approach to medicine in Chicago, and we kinda dig that, so check it out.

Like a child who brings their grade up from an F to a D-, the Chicago Postal Service is reacting to a nationwide audit that found them to be "Most Improved" as if they'd just won a championship marathon. WTF, Chicago Post? You're still the worst in the nation! The fact that the service is most improved is based mostly on a 3% increase in the odds that if you sent something first class to...

We're torn. On the one hand, every time we hear that the Post Office is about to raise its rates again, we think, "Are you kidding me? You just raised rates, what? Two years ago? C'mon!" Cause we hate it when anything goes up in price, and it seems like when we were kids, the raising of the price of a stamp happened every ten years, and it seemed like such a monumental milestone. Of...

Robert Feder composed a lede so perfect we must pay it tribute: “On the eve of Valentine's Day, Bonneville International is renewing its commitment to Love FM.” How sweet. It's heartwarming when faceless international media entities can show the L-O-V-E to their S.O.’s, even when they are in 23rd place in the Chicago radio market.

Fed up with all you fancy pants online bill-payers, the U.S. Postal Service is removing hundreds of street-corner mailboxes from Chicago. They conduct quarterly surveys of mailbox use, and remove those that collect fewer than 25 pieces of mail each day. They blame the internet, with email and online bill pay replacing the need for most first-class mail, and also cite security concerns for removing boxes near potential terrorist targets like the Sears Tower.

If you’re like Chicagoist, you have a pile of junk mail on your desk. Catalogs, credit card offers, magazine subscription offers, etc. It’s amazing there are any trees left in the world.

Among the 12 designs are two Chicago landmarks -- the John Hancock Center and Mies van der Rohe's minimalist apartment buildings at 860-880 N. Lake Shore Dr. Trib architecture critic Blair Kamin, however, takes exception to the small number of Chicago landmarks included in the set -- and he's absolutely right. If there's one this this city knows -- other than hot dogs and pizza -- it's revolutionary architecture. Blair mentions Marina City and the Farnsworth House as among those which should have been included, and Chicagoist agrees.

Indie-rock haven Pitchfork is good for something besides their cynical reviews: they also break pertinent music information. And today, they revealed the most pertinent tidbit of them all � the track listing to the Wicker Park soundtrack. (How's that for sarcasm, Pitchforkers?) As dreamy as star Josh Hartnett is, Chicagoist isn't really looking forward to this film, which, as we pointed out a while back, sounded better when it was called Vertigo and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The trailer hasn't given us much more faith: it understandably played to laughs and jeers when Chicagoist saw it with a local audience before Anchorman. We just can't in good faith support any movie that misuses Chicago locations, let alone such Chicago locations.