Police and U.S. Postal Service officials are searching for a man who robbed a post office in East Pittsburgh at gunpoint late Friday, according to KDKA-TV. 

The man was wearing a mask and gray hooded sweatshirt. Postal Inspector J. Bruce Hammerle told KDKA-TV that “the clerk was not injured, fortunately. However, [he] is shaken up emotionally.”

No shots were fired in the robbery.

KDKA reported that a surveillance camera outside the Lanigan Funeral Home on Linden Avenue, across the street from the post office, captured video of the suspect casually walking up to the post office, and leaving a few moments later.

Mr. Hammerle said post offices are not robbed very often, largely because the offices don't keep much cash on hand.

In fiscal year 2012, there were just 83 reported post office and postal employee robberies, or attempted robberies, in the U.S., resulting in 53 arrests. 

The suspect was described as a young, light-skinned black man, about 6 feet tall, according to KDKA. Anyone with information is asked to call the U.S. Postal Inspection Service at 1-877-876-2455.

First Published: November 30, 2013, 3:28 p.m.