Rochester, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Workers with UPS and the U.S. Postal Service are under continued threat, officials said, from attacks and injury.
Officials in Rochester, N.Y., said a woman has been accused of attacking a postal worker as they noted an “alarming uptick” in violent incidents. The Rochester Police Department said the woman was harassing the mail carrier around 1:45 p.m. on Sept. 25.
Police said the woman approached the letter carrier and claimed she needed to give him mail. After becoming aggravated, she demanded that he return the mail to her. She then continued to follow him and shot at him until she attempted to attack him with a glass bottle, and then with a kitchen knife.
The letter carrier fled to their truck for safety. When he did, the woman hit the truck with a bottle, police said. The letter carrier was not injured and was able to drive away and call the police. The suspect, 43, was arrested and is facing charges from a previous incident, the police said.
While the police don’t believe her actions are related to any other assaults on mail carriers, Rochester has seen five assaults on postal carriers in September alone.
