A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives introduced a bill to address the rising number of attacks against letter carriers. According to the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), there have been more than 2,000 such crimes committed since 2020. 

“Throughout our history, letter carriers in uniform have been able to walk down even the meanest streets in this country without incident,” NALC President Brian Renfroe said at a press conference on Capitol Hill. “No one messed with their letter carrier. That has changed.”  

Many of the attacks involve weapons — including guns. Some are caught on security cameras in local neighborhoods, such as one in which a letter carrier was assaulted on a front lawn by two masked men and another in which a carrier was punched in a driveway and subsequently tumbled into the street.