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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @07:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @07:59AM (#490757)

    Actually, the USPS hallmark of a poor neighborhood is inconsistency. On the doorstep, in the front yard... if you're lucky enough that they did not deliver it somewhere else.