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A Perk of Delivering Mail: Meeting All the Good Dogs
Meet the UPS driver who proves once and for all that mail carriers and dogs can live in harmony.
Postal workers and dogs have always had a… let’s call it special relationship. In the age-old comedy schtick, mail carriers are destined to be chased off the porch by their sworn enemies: menacing canines.
But take one look at Jason (Jay) Hardesty’s Instagram account and it’s clear that dogs can be a postman’s best friend, too. The 30-year-old UPS driver in New Orleans is the human behind #pupsofjay, a hashtag he created to document all the friendly furballs he meets through his day job. When writer Jami Attenberg this week tweeted photos of Hardesty posing with the various pups of her neighborhood, she unknowingly unleashed the kind of pure joy the internet had been itching for.