USPS Paw Program Stickers Appear On Kansas City Mailboxes As Doggie Attacks Rise

Animal lover friends of the blog send this note our way . . . A quick explanation why some residents are seeing stickers on mailboxes and a look inside the risking number of local doggie attacks against postal workers.

Here are the deets . .  .

"The Paw Program which has been instituted in several cities across the U.S. since it was rolled out in 2020, uses a color-coded system to inform carriers who may not be familiar with the route which houses have dogs. A yellow paw sticker means that there is a dog living nearby, while an orange indicates that there is a dog living at that home."

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See a paw print sticker on a mailbox? Don't remove it

(NEXSTAR) - More than 5,300 mail carriers were bitten by dogs last year, a number the USPS is trying to bring down with a push for public awareness as well as a clever, if simple, sticker-based program. The Paw Program which has been instituted in several cities across the U.S.