BOSTON (AP) — Mail delivery will resume at a public housing complex, postal officials announced Tuesday — just hours after suspending service because of shootings in the neighborhood.

Postmaster Marsha Cannon said deliveries would continue after meeting with city officials and residents. Police are planning to step up security by increasing patrols and hiring additional personnel, spokesman David Estrada added.

Tenants at the Bromley-Heath housing development had been told to pick up their mail at a nearby post office until further notice. A tenant organization leader said many of the 1,900 residents — some of whom are elderly and handicapped — believed postal officials overreacted.

A shooting on Monday scared two mail carriers, and a week earlier, a man was shot to death near the complex in Boston's Jamaica Plain section.

"People depend on their mail," said City Councilor John Tobin, who represents the neighborhood. "Residents, no matter where they live, should still expect to get mail."

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Earlier this week, police launched a crackdown on violence in Boston, which has seen 22 homicides so far this year, the highest since 1997.

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