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Show Postmaster Urges Dog Owners to Sit Up and Take Notice The literature of childhood is full of stories about the dog being one of man's best friends. Postmaster Post-master Rulon Wood remembers these stirring tales, but he remembers re-members also from his years in the postal service that dogs are sometimes a mailman's worst en-my. en-my. The postmaster's point is this: he wants to deliver everybody's mail, for delivering mail is his business. The more complete and congenial his services can be, the more he likes it. But he doesn't care to send out a whole man and get back only part of one. "So if your dog is anxious to bite our carrier, keep him confined con-fined while the mail is being de-lvered de-lvered on your street," pleads Postmaster Wood. 'This way, you'll get your mail, the carrier will preserve his posterior, and the taxpayer will receive better returns on his investment." Dog bites can be held to a minimum in number and severity sever-ity only if dog owners cooperate willingly with the postal service. ser-vice. So if your dog doesn't possess pos-sess and exhibit proper respect for public servants, please keep him, or her, or it, on a leash or otherwise confined when the carrier car-rier comes to your house. |