ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — While the job of a postal worker may seem peaceful to the average resident, it's actually had the opposite effect recently, with a string of violent attacks on postal workers, leaving some employees scared to return to work.

In an exclusive interview, News 8 heard from a USPS employee and a victim of one of these assaults.

“There's a bunch of what ifs, but I'm not a ‘what if’, it that happened to me," the employee said. "It happened to other carriers. It's just traumatic. You know, I feel it's just sad that anybody has to go through it.”

In September alone, there had been six separate attacks on postal employees, some resulting in a robbery, some at random, and some even involving weapons.

On Thursday, one USPS employee was randomly attacked by a woman he did n

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