With assaults and robberies on the rise, postal workers rally in Baltimore for better protection

Increasingly fearful for their safety on the job, dozens of letter carriers rallied outside a Baltimore post office Tuesday afternoon for better protection.

Tony Vaughn, president of Baltimore’s chapter of the National Association of Letter Carriers, which represents around 3,000 letter carriers in the region, said over the past two years that there have been 14 robberies and assaults of letter carriers in Baltimore and an additional nine around the state, most at gunpoint.

“In this job...