CHICAGO — Postal carriers citywide continue to be robbed at gunpoint and police say at least 12 have occurred in the last month, most recently on Wednesday in the city’s North Lawndale neighborhood.
In each instance, one to three armed robbers approached mail carriers on the public way during the afternoon and demanded their postal keys by threatening force before fleeing the scene in a waiting vehicle, according to a Chicago Police community alert.
In one of the incidents, the robbers took a victim’s vehicle by force following one of the attacks, which began March 2 in the Little Italy neighborhood and happened most recently on Wednesday afternoon in North Lawndale.
