Rain, sleet or snow cannot stop mail delivery, but house cat does

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2007

OTTAWA (AFP) — Neither rain, sleet nor snow can stop Canada Post's trusted carriers from delivering the mail, but a cuddly house cat believed to be the devil in disguise seems to have done just that.

According to reports, a Winnipeg couple was refused mail delivery this week and was asked to walk four kilometers each day to pick up their letters at a local post office in the western Canadian city because their cat terrifies the mailwoman.

Canada Post spokeswoman Kathi Neal told AFP the eight-year-old black cat often sleeps underneath the front steps of the small bungalow and is "very aggressive" with the carrier when the owner is not home.

It has "growled and leapt up to try to scratch the mail carrier's face" on three occasions in the past six months, she...