JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Letter carriers in Jacksonville are marching through downtown to bring community awareness to the recent attacks while they deliver mail.
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The letter carriers were joined by residents, community leaders, and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) branch presidents from across the country.
Jim Thigpen, Jacksonville president of the NALC spoke at the rally about the attacks on the Jacksonville mail carriers.
“I mean, every single neighborhood we’ve had situations where it happened on the Northside, and then the half hour later, it happened on the Westside in one day. And this is just not tied to a certain side of town or anything like that. It’s more of a targeted type situation.”
Elisa Foster the president of the Chicago NALC chapter said they want to put what’s happening in the public so the community can help them feel safe when they are delivering the mail.
The NALC said Jacksonville letter carriers are increasingly becoming targets of robberies and physical assaults,
“These brazen crimes, once exceedingly rare but now growing more frequent and more violent here, elsewhere in the state and beyond, are hurting letter carriers, leading to stolen mail, and damaging our community. The attacks hardly ever occurred just a few years ago; now they are increasingly common. This is unacceptable and must stop now,” the NALC said in a press release.
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