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USPS paused delivery in Austin neighborhood due to hawk attacks

July 7, 2023

READ FULL ARTICLE AT » Axios Austin

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night can keep a mail courier from their route.

But, as it turns out, hawks can.

Driving the news: USPS has suspended mail service for weeks in a portion of the Travis Heights neighborhood because of a particularly territorial hawk and its fledglings, postal service officials told Axios on Friday.

What’s happening: Residents and mail carriers near Milam Place and Kenwood Avenue have spent weeks dodging the bird as it protects its young during nesting season.

    • Residents at roughly 20 homes must pick up their mail at a nearby post office until it’s safe for mail carriers to resume their route, according to USPS spokesperson Becky Hernandez.
    • It’s one of several recent hawk attacks in Central Texas.
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