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From KHOU-TV 11 News Staff Reports:

Police were called to the 6600 block of Park Lane in southeast Houston Monday afternoon where a mail carrier was allegedly forced to strip at gunpoint. One suspect waited in a vehicle while two others allegedly approached the male postal worker with a rifle and ordered him to remove all of his clothing. The suspects fled the scene with the man’s clothes after a neighbor saw the confrontation and asked what was going on.  The neighbor called 911 and provided the nude man with some of her husband’s clothes.

 Postal carrier robbed of his clothes in bizarre attack  (see video of carrier

(Federal Times) The U.S. Postal Service will not change its mail delivery practices following the February Supreme Court decision that allows a woman to sue the agency after she said she was injured when she tripped and fell over mail left on her porch.

“We really can’t change what we have been doing since 1864 because we have been doing it pretty well since 1864,” said Postal Service spokesman Gerry McKiernan.

After the ruling, the Postal Service reviewed its regulations regarding when mail and packages can be left outside and decided against changing them. Supervisors will remind letter carriers of the policies during “stand-up talks” — or instructions — at the beginning of each shift.

The Supreme Court ruling said the Postal Service was not immune from suits; it didn’t say the Postal Service had to settle. If you sue the Postal Service, you have to do it in a federal court arguing against a U.S. attorney who works for the Postal Service for free. So they are not the easiest people to sue, and this case won’t open the floodgates of litigation,” Merritt said.

Drew Von Bergen, spokesman for the National Association of Letter Carriers, defended letter carriers as an exceptionally conscientious group of workers who make every effort to put the mail where it will be protected from the elements yet available to its recipients without getting in their way.

A Florida mail carrier was shot in the wrist Saturday afternoon while delivering mail in an apartment complex on a route she recently took over, police and a city official said. Police did not release identification of the victim, but City Commissioner Don Garrett identified her as Patty Mcleod  of Lake Harbor, who has worked for the Belle Glade post office for about 15 years. Mcleod was delivering mail around 1 p.m. when she heard a loud bang, then realized she was shot, police said. A maintenance man drove her in her mail truck to Glades General Hospital.  [scroll down for story ] New Jersey postal worker shot while on his route - A postal worker is recovering after two burglars shot him while he was delivering mail in East Orange [New Jersey] . Police say the postman interrupted a burglary on Saturday. Authorities say the postal worker and suspects got into a scuffle that ended with the worker being shot in the leg.

source:South Florida Sun -Sentinel

With fewer people living in the city, more than 200 Orleans Parish postal workers will soon be permanently relocated out of town, according to a document obtained by Eyewitness News. A notification letter to one employee, dated February 9, was actually delivered in the mail Wednesday [ 2/22], giving her less than two weeks to move to a new town and job. One worker, a single mother, who complained about unreasonable expectations to a postal service counselor, was told to leave her child with a friend while she relocated. The current reassignment date for those post office employees was March 4, but Dave Lewin, a post office spokesman, said that date was not written in stone. Open Comments

 source: WWL TV New Orleans