US postal carriers and your mail are under assault. Is there a simple solution?

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – It has never been an easy task delivering the mail, but even as some of us have become less reliant on that daily delivery, the task has become even more difficult, dangerous even.

Mail carriers have found themselves at risk as they navigate through neighborhoods trying to finish their route, so much so that the National Association of Postal Supervisors reports there have been 7,000 reports of violent crimes against postal employees in the first year since the elimination of the postal police.

Yes, you read that correctly.