13 Investigates speaks with a Houston postal worker who was robbed of his mail key. Our investigation found he's among 600 carriers robbed last year alone in the U.S.
Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clockIt was just like any other day when USPS postal worker Ulysses Wells was working an overtime shift and arrived at a cluster of mailboxes last summer to deliver mail on his Houston route."My focus is on getting the mail together, trying to get off work, trying to hurry, things of that nature," Wells told 13 Investigates ' Kevin Ozebek. "You're not thinking about anything else.
"They had a team, so I assume they already had this planned, what they were going to do, how they were going to do it, and I guess maybe if they needed to, they could all just jump me," he said. He also said attacks on postal workers should concern everyone because, in addition to traumatizing employees, it puts residents' packages and private information at risk. But, he said there's just not enough investigators looking into these federal crimes.
"We have to take away what these criminals are looking for. We've got to de-incentivize these robberies. That would be ideal. We also have to have more prosecutions, and that's where the Department of Justice has to step up and that may take legislation to help them prioritize it," Boyd said. "We also need the postal inspectors to prioritize investigating these types of crimes.
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