09-22-2020 01:36 AM
This just in across the news wires.
Two postal delivery drivers were shot in Chicago. No word on whether they survived.
The postal union immediatly issued a statement that ANY driver who feels unsafe can simply end their route and refuse to deliver the rest of the mail. The union says that people will have to go to the post office top pick up the mail. That raises a question - how do the recipients know there is a package if the driver cuts the rout short and, by extension, never delivers that pick up note.
If I understood the news cast correctly, many/all of the carriers have already been wearing bullet proof vests. To deliver the mail? That is frightening.
So I guess you can expect an increase in INR from Chicago addresses.
09-22-2020 04:38 AM
That is terrible. I guess everyone could sign up for Informed Delivery and at least would know what mail they should have received so they could decide if they need to go to the Post Office to get it or not. I only have a PO Box and Informed Delivery saves me a lot of trips to pick up mail when all that is there is junk stuff.
09-22-2020 07:07 AM
@richard1rst wrote:So I guess you can expect an increase in INR from Chicago addresses.
Well, to be clear, the first shooting was back in March; the second was on September 10. A day after the second shooting, another carrier was hit with a paintball.
However, Chicago is a huge place; the odds of your shipment being affected by an occasional incident like that (horrific as they are; I'm not suggesting they are not) are so remote that I wouldn't change my Shipping practices based on that.
09-22-2020 08:27 AM
Nothing surprises me about Chicago, for a town that was once rich in history and culture, it's become the lost civilization. I pray those postal workers will recover.