USPS stops deliveries to California neighborhood after repeated attacks on mail carriers: Report

The USA Postal Service has suspended companies in a single neighborhood in Santa Monica, California due to repeated assaults on mail carriers since January, in response to a report. 

The primary incident occurred on Jan. 19 when a resident dwelling close to the intersection of 14th Road and Arizona Avenue allegedly swung a broomstick at one service delivering mail within the early night hours, in response to CBS. The service reportedly was not injured within the assault. 

Months later, residents just lately obtained notices from the USPS informing them that supply service has been hereby suspended to all addresses situated within the 1300 block of 14th Road.

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The discover defined that “a number of carriers have been subjected to assaults and threats of assault from a person who has not been situated or apprehended.” 

Nonetheless, just one assault has been formally reported, and the sufferer in that incident declined to have the case prosecuted, in response to CBS Information. 

A spokesperson for the Santa Monica Police Division advised the outlet that the suspect is well-known amongst officers, who’ve had a number of points with him up to now, largely associated to home incidents.

It’s not clear when the suspension is ready to finish. Regardless of the discover, USPS nonetheless has been delivering packages within the neighborhood, however paper mail supply has halted, and residents have been instructed to select up their mail in individual at their publish workplace on seventh Road. 

“My speedy response was simply disappointment,” Courtney Smith, who lives within the space, advised CBS. 

“I really feel lots of compassion for the mail carriers,” she added. “Not doing something isn’t the answer.”

Fox Information Digital reached out to USPS and Santa Monica police for added remark.