If you are postal worker or if someone in your family is a mail delivery person, make sure you read this. The U.S. Postal Service released its dog bite city ranking and your city might be one of the top 20.
If your pet has an affinity to attacking the mail carrier, you might be asked to pick up your own mail at the local post office.
According to Ken Snavely, acting Los Angeles postmaster, if your mail delivery person believes your loose pet is a threat, your house may be deemed unsafe for mail delivery. You will be asked to pick up your own mail at the closest post office.
Last year, the Postal Service reported 5,900 cases where letter carriers were attacked by dogs.
Is your city one the list? Here are the top 20:
- Los Angeles, 69 attacks
- San Antonio, 42 attacks
- Seattle, 42 attacks
- Chicago, 41 attacks
- San Francisco, 38 attacks
- Philadelphia, 34 attacks
- Detroit, 33 attacks
- St. Louis, 32 attacks
- Baltimore, 29 attacks
- Sacramento, 29 attacks
- Houston, 27 attacks
- Minneapolis, 27 attacks
- Cleveland, 26 attacks
- Dayton, Ohio, 26 attacks
- Buffalo, N.Y., 24 attacks
- Brooklyn, N.Y., 24 attacks
- Denver, 23 attacks
- Dallas, 21 attacks
- Tacoma, Wash., 21 attacks
- Wichita, Kan., 20 attacks
