A growing problem ?

[k979aaa]

I LOVE DOGS! Especially Barbecued! In reality I hate the Bloody Four Legged s**t Machines. I didn't really like them before I was a Postie but now all I have to hear is that annoying yapping from the front window, with some scabby mongrel jumping up & down the nets, trying to rip them down... and feel like screaming!

It's not the dogs just the tosser's that own them as they just don't get it a dog is a weapon in the wrong hands they just don't appreciate what a dog can do to a kid who is their own. Yet alone a stranger postie or anyone else but the law has changed but attitudes have not till the tosser's do serious time not much will change.

[In The Know]

I've been bitten loads of times, not been bitten for a few years though. The last one was an Alsatian that came at me down the drive after a dopey bint answered the door and he ran past her. He came for me, I put my pouch in front of me and he bit it several times. The woman finally got the dog inside. I reported it to my manager who in turn reported it to the police. The police went round and the dog bit the copper

[In The Know]

Another time I had a right s**t hole of a house on my round and the bloke kept 2 Great Danes. They always went mental when I walked up the drive. One day one was in the front room where there were net curtains up against the window. The dog jumped up at the net curtain and smashed the freekin window. I just walked off

[In The Know]

Another time I was delivering to the same house and I had to endorse the mail, 'rats at large'. Two of them running around in the porch

[simply_the_best]

.i think royal mail should send out a door to door to dog owners stating when a postie knocks at your door,your dog must be locked in another room whilst answering the door.

It doesn't matter who's knocking at the door, it's pig ignorance not to put the dog away before answering, I've had a cuunt of a bite after some stupid old bint couldn't keep her dog in after I knocked the door

[motherhubbard]

The police went round and the dog bit the copper

I don't see why that would make you very happy.

[ScousePostie]

Its happened to me on a few occasions. I go mad with the customer and ask why they havr let the dog out.

And their answer is?

"Oooo don't mind him. He'll lick you to death" is a favourite

Yep. Hear that line on a daily basis.

[Kings Norton]

Maybe we should carry taser guns? Taser them the minute we see one even out on the streets that will teach them to keep away from guys in orange a red coats...

[ScousePostie]

Maybe we should carry taser guns? Taser them the minute we see one even out on the streets that will teach them to keep away from guys in orange a red coats...

A customer once said to me that we should carry pepper spray.

[In The Know]

The police went round and the dog bit the copper

I don't see why that would make you very happy.

EDITED BY POSTMAN:Out of order-behave!

[Dorset Plodder]

I didn't find it funny (as people seem to when you tell them you've been bitten). I did however find it rather ironic.....and I suppose the Copper didn't need any more convincing that the dog was violent?

I think the most annoyed I've been at a customer (which I know is always a dangerous thing to be) was when he said, "He only gets fed twice a day...The Milkman and the Postman Ha Ha Ha"! in retrospect I shouldn't have done it but I just replied, "Yeah Very f***ing Funny...Here's your f***ing Mail"! and threw at him over his gate.

[Nondescript]

I didn't find it funny (as people seem to when you tell them you've been bitten). I did however find it rather ironic.....and I suppose the Copper didn't need any more convincing that the dog was violent?

I think the most annoyed I've been at a customer (which I know is always a dangerous thing to be) was when he said, "He only gets fed twice a day...The Milkman and the Postman Ha Ha Ha"! in retrospect I shouldn't have done it but I just replied, "Yeah Very f***ing Funny...Here's your f***ing Mail"! and threw at him over his gate.

I'm sure you could have worked in a retort that involved his missus being 'fed' by the postman and the milkman twice a day..but that she's always hungry for more

[Justanotherstar]

Usually I would imagine, if anything like customers I have encountered over the years "Oh he/ she wont touch you son!". Usually after it has bounded up to me and jumped up, pawing me in the balls!

I got bit twice by the same dog, which also bit another postie and a few leafleters. The owner still insisted he was harmless and that he'd never hurt anyone when I still had a mark on my leg from the last time it bit me.

Sounds like a prime candidate for rat poison treats.

[POSTMAN]

The police went round and the dog bit the copper

I don't see why that would make you very happy.

EDITED BY POSTMAN:Out of order-behave!

Post edited,move on.