All bark, some bite: USPS offers stickers to promote mail carrier-dog awareness in Lakewood. Updated: Jun. 07, 2023, ... and the yellow cautions the carrier that there is a dog at the next house.

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.

If You See a Yellow Ribbon on a Dog Collar, ... The Paws mailbox sticker program. In 2020, the Postal Service rolled out the Paws Program in select cities around the country.

Postal workers will place a orange sticker on your mailbox if you have a dog at your house or a green/yellow sticker if there is a dog next door.