When their mail stopped arriving about a week ago, residents on a neat block near the beach on the west side of Los Angeles County were perplexed.

At first, said Charlotte Jay, “I just thought I hadn’t got any.” A day or so passed. She was expecting a certified letter. Then a neighbor tipped her off: Their mail was suspended.

Jay added, “I was like: ‘What?’”

The disruption had been explained in a letter from the United States Postal Service, but some residents said they had not initially received or seen it.

According to the note, delivery service had been halted to “all addresses located on the 1300 block of 14th Street” following multiple “assaults and threats of assault” against postal workers by a person in the neighborhood.

“The safety of our employees and the mail they deliver to you is our highest concern,” the letter said, adding that until service was resumed, residents could collect their mail at a nearby post office.

“The entire block? It’s an extreme measure,” Jay, a stock trader, said Tuesday afternoon outside her apartment, where she had just returned from a walk with her brown terrier mix.

She added: “I was shocked, and I was angry.”

Service to the area resumed Tuesday, but the episode has left lingering questions of residents’ expectation of mail delivery, one of the few remaining constants in a world upended (and hastened to anger) by the coronavirus pandemic. It has also brought into focus the right to safety for postal workers who, like other essential workers, have battled through the past two years, hand delivering the nation’s letters, bills and paychecks, day in and out.

The police confirmed that on Jan. 19, a man assaulted a mail carrier in Santa Monica with a broomstick.

“The victim sustained a minor injury to his arm and did not require medical attention,” the Santa Monica Police Department said in a statement.

Though the Postal Service has cited episodes involving “three separate letter carriers” in Santa Monica, the police said that they had received information about only one an attack.

A suspect was arrested and charged in the Jan. 19 assault, the police said, but those charges were later dropped after the victim decided not to proceed. That same suspect was arrested on April 6 on unrelated charges of “misdemeanor vandalism and possession of drug paraphernalia,” the police said.

The police said authorities were trying to locate other postal workers who may have been victims as part of their continuing investigation.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/someone-attacked-postal-worker-then-121059112.html

Only the USPS would send a LETTER telling people that mail service is suspended...

They sent one...but refused to deliver it...

One time I got a letter from UPS telling me that they couldn't deliver the package because my address didn't exist.  I went do to the terminal with the letter to get my package and ask how they thought sending a letter to a supposedly non-existent address was a good idea?

I'm sure that the whole block was all "I didn't see nuthin'!"

Oh well.

And then a dupe happened.

And nobody noticed.

And nobody cared.

clean up yo block

There was a documentary that showed this....

This. "Accidents" happen.

How did they respond?

Give me a mail truck, uniforms for myself and two friends and immunity for all three, and this will stop tomorrow.

damn I remember the days when we didn't have all this degeneracy going on

I'll bet its a homeless bum causing the trouble. The article was pretty lite on details.
A deranged, mentally ill feral human causing trouble.
Thanks Gavin Newsome! ( you piece of shit)

This. Allow the postman to carry and use a large can of Sabre Red as needed.

They stopped the mail again?

https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/USPS-suspends-mail-delivery-route-in-Ca-city/5-2545233/

fify

That’s a sure was to get the grandma’s and Karen’s to solve the problem.  They know who is doing it, just afraid to say anything.  Get between them and the check or mail, thems fighting words.

I was told my then 80 year old address didn't exist. When I proved it existed, they told me it "appeared vacant." Had to explain to them multiple times that it was a split-address townhome, and I lived on the second floor and the first floor was being renovated. Mail carrier simply looked into the first floor windows and decided no one lived there.

I detest the postal service.

Then a worker declined to press charges. Honk honk

Lol, ain't it the truth. My 90 yo Mom looks at the mail being delivered like a kid views Christmas morning!

This kind of stuff is older than any living person

The cops arrested the perp and the fucking postman decided to not proceed with charges. Then they decide to not deliver the mail. Fuck the USPS.

I bitched the mail lady out over the junk mail she puts in my mail box so many times she refuses to deliver my mail at all.  win-win in my opinion.

I hope so. I would have stopped it twice if I were the postmaster.

Newman!!

I sweat the show the “PJ’s” had a story about this.

Has there been a picture of the crazy guy yet? I notice a lack of any identity in the stories I've seen.
Is this a case of if there is no description, that is the description?

Because a certain postman delivered mail from a certain school to a certain kids house, they threatened to shove him in a pizza oven.

When I was a letter carrier for the USPS, thankfully my postmaster took care of his people. It didn't take much for him to suspend delivery for an address or a whole block if it was unsafe for a letter carrier to be there.

There was a shit-bag who let his aggressive shit-bull run loose because he wouldn't fix his fence. The postmaster suspended delivery for that street. People complained and were basically told "sorry, your neighbor is letting his dangerous dog run loose and until the issue is taken care of, no delivery to your street".

Within a week, the fence was fixed and the dog was no longer a problem. Imagine that...

I really don't care, do you?

Probably over a decade ago, but a national chain pizza joint refused deliveries in a particular zone. They tried to mitigate the complaints by agreeing to meet at the nearest convenience store, or some well traveled intersection. The uproar made by the poverty pimp coalition brought them bad media attention. So, they had cops do ‘ride alongs’ on the suspect calls. It took a half dozen arrests, one of which involved a shooting, and problem solved. It was a 30 day detail, put on 20 plus pounds eating free pizza.

Attached File

Updated USPS creed released:

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night nor threats of a good ass whoopin' stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"

The USMC has solved this problem before.

Postal workers union lols at actual work

So, the mailman was supposed to get a ladder and peak through the upstairs windows?

Why not use a REAL saber?

The postage is paid. He should stuff it in the box like he's being paid to do.

North St. Louis?

Remember under Obama the USPS was getting Hugh deliveries of gov ordered ammo.
Obviously they can’t do anything other than shoot targets and choke their chickens.