Up and down the block, patches of dirt were visible where the plastic mailboxes once stood. They made our neighbors get the boxes because of us, and I'm just glad for our neighbors' sake. Parsons said her dog was never a threat to the mail carrier. Neighbor Jodie Cummings said the mailboxes were removed because the neighborhood raised a fuss about them. Everybody's making a big deal about it, but it's really no big deal.
Many residents oppose the mailboxes because they say the structures are inconvenient and ugly.
The group has reached a verbal agreement with the Postal Service to help solve neighborhood dog problems. If a dog bites, attacks or chases a letter carrier, the Postal Service plans to contact the owner as well as the neighborhood association president, who will try and get the owner to restrain loose dogs. Now, postal officials notify only the owner until the third warning, when all residents on the affected block are informed they will no longer receive mail on their porches. They are given a choice to either put up a street-side box or rent a post office box. The practice has outraged residents, some of whom have left home for work only to return to find a curbside mailbox in their yards.