news release<\/a>. This is the third year in a row L.A. has ranked as the top city nationwide for dog attacks, down 77 incidents in 2024 but up from 65 in 2023. <\/p>\nCalifornia was the top state for dog attacks on postal workers last year, recording 673 incidents overall.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in California, San Diego postal workers experienced 32 attacks, Oakland had 27, Sacramento had 21, Long Beach had 20 and San Francisco had 21, according to the release. <\/p>\n
\u201cEvery single day, our postal employees serve their communities across dynamic, fast-changing environments,\u201d said Leeann Theriault, employee safety and health awareness manager in the release. \u201cPreventing dog-related incidents requires constant, shared vigilance. This campaign reinforces a vital truth: Animal behaviors can change in an instant, but proactive awareness from both our carriers and the customers we serve can stop painful injuries before they ever happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
The USPS has shared tips for dog owners and postal service employees alike in an effort to prevent more attacks. <\/p>\n
Owners should manage their dogs during delivery times by keeping their pets in a separate room before opening the front door and ensuring the door is latched before stepping outside, according to the release. <\/p>\n
They should also use a leash if their dog is outdoors during mail delivery.<\/p>\n
Customers can also use USPS Informed Delivery and review incoming mail from their device before it arrives. <\/p>\n
Postal carriers have also been trained to announce their entry before making a delivery, to rattle a gate or fence before walking into a yard, to maintain visual contact with the dog, and to assume that a dog poses risk. <\/p>\n
If a dog attacks, carriers are trained to use their mail satchel as a shield and deploy dog repellent if necessary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, U.S. Postal Service employees suffered 70 dog attacks in Los Angeles, the highest city in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,15025,9182,139393,94428,139391,139394,84679,4456,7036,63,1524,72722,5274,139392],"class_list":["post-337838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-carrier","tag-customer","tag-delivery-time","tag-dog-attack","tag-dog-owner","tag-employee-safety","tag-front-door","tag-incident","tag-last-year","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-nation","tag-postal-worker","tag-release","tag-u-s-postal-service-employee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}