Booming online sales mean more dog attacks for mail carriers

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Booming online sales mean more dog attacks for mail carriers - Detroit Free Press

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

United Parcel Service said its 66,000 deliverers suffered about 900 dog bites last year, a percentage that has remained fairly stable. Spokesman Dan McMackin, a former UPS driver who used to carry dog biscuits to woo surly pets, said he found pit bulls and smaller dog breeds to be more nettlesome than “hunting dogs” — such as Labrador retrievers and beagles — who “don’t have much to prove.”
 
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