Some post offices use paw print stickers to alert mail carriers that a dog lives at the home. This helps them stay aware and take precautions, even if the dog is friendly.

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 ...

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 is going into effect not just in Lakewood but across the greater Cleveland area. “Cleveland ranked number four in the country, we had 43 dog bites,” Carter said.

In an adorable video shared on TikTok, the couple's photographer captured the moment when their dog, Cece, stamped the marriage license with her paw.

Workers placed paw-print stickers on the mailboxes of homes known to have dogs: an orange sticker to indicate that a dog lives at that address and a yellow sticker to signal that a dog lives next ...