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If there’s one thing that Tara Snyder, a veteran mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, teaches every new mail carrier she trains, it’s this: “Even if a dog is friendly to you 364 days a year, they can have a bad day too—and bite you. If they have teeth, they can bite.”
She knows of what she speaks. In April 2024, Snyder was doing her usual route in Pennsylvania when she approached a resident’s door to get a signature for a piece of mail. Before she realized what was happening, a 70-pound dog launched out the door and went right for her hand. She tried to block it with her mailbag, but it was too late. “It ripped my hand open pretty bad,” she says, noting that she ended up needing 17 stitches, a tetanus shot, a round of antibiotics and three weeks off work to recover. “The worst part was that it bit my right hand, and I’m right-handed.”
It wasn’t the first or last confrontation between a mail carrier and a vicious dog at that address. In fact, a different dog cornered Snyder on the porch during a separate visit. (Thankfully, she wasn’t bitten that time.) Animal Control is looking into the owners, and the Postal Service is doing everything it can to stop its mail carriers from getting bitten. Because the fact is, Snyder is not alone: There were 5,800 incidents involving dogs and postal workers in 2023, according to Postal Service data.
That brings us to the colored paw-print stickers you may have spotted on mailboxes.an orange sticker to indicate that a dog lives at that address and a yellow sticker to signal that a dog lives next door. The goal was to let Postal Service workers and other delivery people know they should be on the lookout for dogs or other animals at that address—especially dogs who don’t react well to mail carriers.