Postal Service suspends delivery to Boston housing project

By Ken Maguire, Associated Press, 5/18/2004 17:02

BOSTON (AP) Postal officials concerned about recent gun violence suspended mail delivery Tuesday to 550 homes at a public housing complex in the city's Jamaica Plain section.

The decision to stop deliveries to the Bromley-Heath housing development was made after a shooting in ''broad daylight'' Monday put the two carriers who deliver mail to the complex in fear for their safety, a U.S. Postal Service spokesman said. No one was injured in the shooting, which was one week after a man was shot to death while visiting his mother at the development.

A tenant organization leader said many of the 1,900 residents were ''outraged,'' and claimed postal officials overreacted. Residents, some of whom are elderly and handicapped, were told Tuesday morning that they must pick up their mail at the post office, about one mile away, until further notice.

''The customers are inconvenienced, and we feel very bad,'' spokesman Bob Cannon said. ''Our carriers are not naive, but when bullets are flying around, it's time to take drastic steps.''

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and other agencies don`t clean out the project but then again these people have no money. yes the postal service can and should stop postal deliveries to the area.

..and Boston's Finest seemed to consider it a priority only when there was another body to be investigated.

Places like that need foot patrols, lots of them, with close cooperation with the 95% of the residents who are good people with bad luck. These places can be cleaned up, and have been in other parts of the country.

The attitude that poor folks are by nature criminals and subhuman only perpetuates the problems.