Delivering the mail is becoming more dangerous. Mail carriers are being held up, some at gunpoint, more frequently throughout the Bay Area and as Marianne Favro reports, four USPS employees were targeted in just five days.
One of the brazen attacks happened on Tilson Avenue in a quiet neighborhood of Cupertino last Thursday.
“The robber came up to the carrier, indicated that they had a weapon, took keys, took postal equipment, not mail, and then fled the scene in a getaway vehicle,” said U.S. Postal Inspector, Jeff Fitch.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter. Postal investigators said the getaway car was a four-door, white older model Infinity. They also believe the same vehicle was used in an attempted robbery of a mail carrier the same day on Norton Avenue in San Jose.
Last week mail carriers in four Bay Area cities: Cupertino, San Jose, San Pablo and San Francisco, were targeted.
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