The ill will between dog and mail carriers is so well established that it ’s become something of a joke . But cunning as thoseLarry the Mailmanchew toys may be , dog attack are a existent problem for America ’s letter carriers . Arecent reportfrom the USPS found more than 6500 attacks on employees in 2015 alone .
Dog lovers may find this surd to conceive , but mankind ’s best friend is not always so friendly . More than 4.5 million Americans are bitten by dogs each yr . More than halfof the victims are tyke , who are also more likely to be earnestly pain by a bite .
But why do dogs hate postal worker so much?They do n’t , say dog expert . It ’s just that letter carriers a ) enter dogs ’ territories , which arrive at the animals feel threatened and justificative ; and b ) seem to go away when the dogs go barking or get aggressive . The fact that the postal workers leave after delivering the chain mail reinforces dogs ’ certainty that their barking did a good Book of Job .
And it ’s not as though postal workers can just decamp houses with dogs ; after all , that’s37 to 47 percentof American households . So the chain armour flattop persist , which brings them into difference with some very worked - up canines .
Last year , according to the USPS account , 6549 postal worker were attack , some quite earnestly . The paper ranked the 30 spoilt urban center for dog blast . At the very top was Houston , Texas , which reckon 77 incidents — up 22 pct from last yr . There ’s a very hard-nosed intellect for that say McKinney Boyd , head of USPS public relations for the Houston area : " We drive home more parcels now than before , and we also render ring mail on Sundays , ” hetoldVocativ . “ So we attribute this gain to the addition of parcel manner of speaking on Sundays … fork out chain armor an additional 51 twenty-four hours of the year has sure contribute [ to increased attacks ] . ”
To protect its employees , USPS is implementing a fresh system that requires customers to indicate whether or not they have a dog when call for a tone arm . But there ’s a simpler path to prevent fire , Boyd notes : “ Please confine your dogs . "
