She was kind and empathetic and always looked out for others when she could. “She was a wild, fun, loving woman who always made everyone around her smile and made everyone laugh. “Candy Bertocci was one of a kind, who touched everyone she ever met,” one former classmate commented on Facebook. The death has been met with an outpouring of grief and sympathy by Bertocci’s friends, fellow USPS workers, and Chicago residents. The deceased appears to have been Candy Bertocci, a 27-year-old letter carrier from the Champaign-Urbana area in central Illinois, based on numerous posts by Bertocci’s friends and coworkers at the United States Postal Service (USPS) on Facebook.Ī staff person for the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), one of the two main unions covering USPS workers, commented that Bertocci was apparently just starting her second day of work in Chicago, and had only begun as a city carrier assistant (CCA) in Urbana last September. There’s police tape up too and at least 5-6 cop cars.” Monday, a Twitter account that posts frequent updates of police radio activity, tweeted, “Female mail carrier hanged herself in the back of the mail truck.” The tweet was in response to a question from another user, who had posted images of emergency vehicles and a mail truck outside their apartment, asking, “Have you heard anything around Belmont/Elston? This is outside of my apartment right now. A young postal worker was found dead in Chicago Monday night, apparently hanging herself in the back of her mail truck, according to a report from a police scanner and comments by union officials.Īt 10:20 p.m.

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