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" Faced with a rash of armed robberies, the U.S. Postal Service has installed bullet-resistant counter barriers at dozens of city postal offices in recent months.
| , But in Manhattan, two-thirds of the 60 post offices have |
service counters that are wide open to the public and are vulnerable, officials concede. , Since 1991 there have been 46 armed robberies in city postal locations. One of those ! - the January, 1993, hijacking of a postal truck ! - resulted in the shooting death of one worker. But since October, the start of the federal fiscal year, there has been just one robbery, a development officials credit primarily to the use of bullet-resistant plastic barriers.
| , The high number of over-the-counter holdups prompted the |
Postal Service two years ago to initiate the unprecedented $3-million bullet-proofing effort, adding inch-thick Lexan plastic at 75 additional postal locations citywide, said Lee Heath, the city's chief postal inspector. , The Postal Service also has installed closed-circuit...