UPDATE
Under the eyes of a police officer, a U.S. postal carrier returned today to her route in a south suburban Harvey neighborhood that has gone without door-to-door delivery since the postal carrier had to evade gunfire two weeks ago.
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The police escort was requested to protect the mail carrier so that delivery could resume to about 52 households.The Harvey Post Office suspended delivery Oct. 9 after the carrier reported to her supervisors that she was caught in crossfire as she walked her route. The carrier said someone in a vehicle began shooting at someone on the block as she walked the area of 151st Street and Marshfield Avenue.
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Mail delivery has been suspended for two weeks to more than 50 houses in the Chicago suburb of Harvey because of a mix up after reports that a U.S. postal carrier was caught in gun crossfire.
Postal service spokesman Jose Aguilar said Wednesday that mail delivery was suspended after the carrier said she was caught in the gunfire while working her route on Oct. 10.
Aguilar says the delivery suspension was supposed to last one day. But he says miscommunication at the post office's Harvey branch has drawn that out to nearly two weeks.
Aguilar says Harvey police will escort a mail carrier along the route Thursday.
Harvey spokeswoman Sandra Alvarado says there is no record of a shooting incident Oct. 10 in the area.