What a world. Mailmen have more guts than cops do, nowadays.
Actually mail men do not have to go on your property if they don’t like your dog. Come down to the PO and pick it up.
And newspaper delivery persons. At 13, I was a paperboy in Alaska. I delivered at the end of town, surrounded by wilderness, where people kept dogs big and mean enough to scare the bears away from going through their trash cans. Those were the dogs I dealt with on a daily basis and I never shot one of them, although there were a few that I had to smack down from time to time. I never got bit either.
Years ago I was in the front yard, tending the flowerbeds. My Lab Toby was in the front yard, not leashed. I saw the Mail Lady coming from next door. I gave Toby a down command and she saw Toby obey. She refuse to deliver my mail. I told her to find another line of work. She wasn’t my Mailperson much after that.