CHICAGO — As a little girl in the 1980s, Khalalisa Norris aspired to become a letter carrier. “They can, with a gun, do whatever they want.” Norris, union leaders and criminologists tell Raw Story the solution is simple: The United States Postal Inspection Service — the law enforcement arm of the Postal Service — should use its uniformed postal police …
Mail carrier Mimi Ritz, among those to suffer a dog bite on the job, prepares for her route at the Long Beach post office during the Postal Service’s Dog Bite Awareness campaign. It’s probably why there were more than 5,800 reported dog bites against mail carriers last year, the U.S. Mail carrier Holly Ahlborn, right, holds a stuffed dog on …
Mail carriers load their trucks at the U.S. California led the nation in dog attacks on mail carriers in 2021, with Los Angeles ranking fourth among cities, the U.S. Last year, 656 dog bites on mail carriers were recorded in the state, nearly 100 more than in the state of Texas, which ranked second, according to the postal service. “From …
