PORTLAND, Ore. — About 10 residents in a NE Portland neighborhood aren’t getting their mail, after a man’s dog bit the mail carrier once and chased him another time.

Adam Leckie says his dog Bailey escaped through his fence last year and bit a mail carrier in the hand.

“We take the safety of the mail carrier very seriously. No one should have to feel threatened while they’re out doing their job,” Leckie said.

Since then, he has upgraded the latch on this fence and put up a new mailbox on the street so the carrier wouldn’t have to approach his house. He thought everything was fine, until Bailey got out again while he and his wife were on their honeymoon in August. He says Bailey didn’t bite the carrier that time — just chased him.

But the United States Postal Service took the incident very seriously, and cut off delivery service not just to Leckie’s home, but to 9 of his neighbors on NE Emerson Street. Read more