Belfast posties made 49 dog bite reports last year after encounters with pets as they worked to delivery letters and parcels.
The average of almost one a week in the city is the second highest recorded rate in the UK, just two reports behind Sheffield and five ahead of the third, Tunbridge Wells.
At the start of Royal Mail's Dog Awareness Week, they have revealed the UK numbers of reported dog attacks on their workers dropped by 31% in a year, driven largely by the move to contact free deliveries during the pandemic.
