DETROIT (WJBK) -A letter carrier robbed at gunpoint Monday afternoon while on the job is calling for backup protection for postal workers.
Edward Hosendove’s cell phone, money and mail delivery truck was stolen.
The vehicle was discovered nearby in the neighborhood, and the suspect was found just a few blocks away within hours.
The suspect has been arrested and all missing property has been recovered.
“It’s starting to become too common where letter carries are being assaulted, where letter carriers are being robbed, and something has to be done about it. We are a targets. We are out there alone,” says Hosendove.
Not all people can afford to pay a few to have mail delivered to their home and why should they? Private businesses are not always they answer. A private contractor would just take the best routes or cities and leave the rural areas uncovered or expensive to deliver. That business would just be about lining their own pockets and not pay a decent wage to the people actually doing the work. The carriers who care about their customers and go out everyday in all kinds of weather and conditions. You don’t have a clue routerunner or just don’t care. Routerunners are usually just the lazy ones who become managers that think everyone else is as lazy as they are.
Retiree, I would pay a monthly fee to have mail delivered to my residence. The change would be the service provided is done by a private contractor. Just as it is done today on many HCR routes.
You think the unions are responsible? You don’t think people would be unhappy to have to go to the post office or other place to pick up mail from a PO Box. You must be another right-wing rich privatizer just looking for money or profits for yourself not thinking of your fellow human beings. The post office does a lot for a little money and no government tax money either.
Whereas it is impossible for USPS to “protect” carriers from getting mugged or robbed and whereas USPS must provide safe working environments for its employees then let it be resolved that carrier routes be eliminated; carriers excessed into other positions or crafts; CPUs and mailboxes removed; free PO boxes provided to customers. Problem solved. Savings? Yep…gas, vehicle maintenance, on the job injuries, overtime.
Will it happen? Nope. Why? The Union…while it insists that USPS provide safe working environments and even partner with the agency to that end, it is the first one to not provide one common sense idea to achieve that result but they are the first ones to file the complaints and hinder the process.
we need to bring back armed mail handlers to protect the mail and the postal workers!
That’s for sure those dog spray cans just won’t get it !
The day my coworkers are carrying guns is the day I stop coming to work. Half of them are ticking time bombs from decades of management harrassment.
you can prove the slime is from the neighborhood a shutdown is possible, just like a dog problem. Most scum do not do stuff like this in their own neighborhood.
I agree with Hosendove. Attacks are on an alarming increase, and the Service in its usual style does nothing but issue the standard press release to catch the criminal. The management pledges safety, and means none of it. It’s easy to understand why. These people have been detached, inside off the streets for years, and especially if they were clerks before getting into – ugh- management they never were exposed to the street and all its risks, and as a result couldn’t care less, even when letter carriers are severely injured and even die.
Exactly how the USPS should handle this situation will involve whether carriers can carry sidearms, something I doubt will ever happen. In the meantime, in neighborhoods where these attacks occur, mail service should be discontinued permanently. No life is worth getting junk mail out. If people in bad neighborhoods can’t clean up their act and make it safe for carriers to deliver hand out checks at the end of the month for lazy pieces of shit who won’t work, then they should be forced to rent post office boxes. Local police are probably overburdened as well and can’t be expected to follow a carrier all day long.
Free mail service is a privilege, and while we must always offer universal service, it must be possible to take away that service if customers don’t appreciate it and leave hard working people unlike them alone.