Bullet-Dodging Mail Carriers to Return

Mail delivery to residents of a violence-ridden Chicago housing project will resume one day after carriers halted their routes, complaining of stray gunfire and vandalized mailboxes. The Postal Service had announced that residents of the Robert Taylor Homes, eight public housing projects on Chicago’s South Side, would not receive home delivery and would have to pick up their mail from a parked van. Safety was the issue after a mail carrier was caught in a shootout between rival gang members this week. He was not injured. But officials from the Chicago Housing Authority and the Postal Service agreed that home deliveries would resume today, with enhanced police patrols and resident escorts for mail carriers.