Rally held to support letter carriers amid recent violent attacks on postal workers
A rally led by the Illinois Association of Letter Carriers was held on Chicago's South Side Tuesday night to support postal workers amid several re...
A rally led by the Illinois Association of Letter Carriers was held on Chicago's South Side Tuesday night to support postal workers amid several recent violent attacks on letter carriers in the Chicago area. The rally comes on the same day that Senate Majority Whip and longtime Illinois Senator Dick Durbin sent a follow-up letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and Attorney General Merrick Garland urging additional safety measures to protect mail carriers. Durbin referenced the shooting of a mail carrier on the city's North Side last week in part of his letter: 'On August 1, in the middle of the afternoon, an on-duty letter carrier with the U.