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USPS Workers Facing More Dog Bites as Online Retail Sales Boom

posted by mrpg on Saturday April 08 2017, @05:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the pets-webmd dept.

takyon writes:

Dog attacks on mail carriers hit 6,755 as online sales boom
Booming Online Sales Mean More Dog Bites for Mail Carriers

Booming online retail sales are good news for the U.S. Postal Service, but its carriers are incurring a cost: more dog bites.

Dog attacks on postal workers rose last year to 6,755, up 206 from the previous year and the highest in three decades, as internet shopping booms and consumers increasingly demand seven-day-a-week package delivery and groceries dropped at their doorstep. The high for attacks dated back to the 1980s, at more than 7,000, before maulings by pit bulls and other potentially aggressive dogs became a public issue.

Los Angeles topped the 2016 list with 80 attacks on postal workers, followed by Houston with 62 and Cleveland with 60.

The Postal Service released its annual figures Thursday as part of National Dog Bite Prevention Week, which begins Sunday.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday April 08 2017, @06:11AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 08 2017, @06:11AM (#490718) Journal

    I'll bite.

    Welcome to try my Kevlar pants with jelly padding, loaded with potassium cyanide only this morning - don't worry, it's quite safe when not punctured and it stop leaking when no pressure is applied.

    If you don't want me to deliver your parcel, feel free to drop by at our storage facility, conveniently located 30 miles away, where you can pick that parcel after you pay for the warehousing - a meagre $20/day.

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  • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Saturday April 08 2017, @06:20AM (1 child)

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Saturday April 08 2017, @06:20AM (#490720) Homepage Journal

    Kevlar pants with jelly padding, loaded with potassium cyanide only this ... where you can pick that parcel after you pay for the warehousing - a meagre $20/day

    Now I'm definitely biting your leg.

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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday April 08 2017, @07:36AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 08 2017, @07:36AM (#490748) Journal

      Kevlar pants with jelly padding, loaded with potassium cyanide only this ... where you can pick that parcel after you pay for the warehousing - a meagre $20/day

      Now I'm definitely biting your leg.

      That's fine. Just don't pull it.

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