Things got rather heated in a Pasadena, Maryland, community last May. As residents waited for their mail, station WBAL-TV reported, two letter carriers got into a fight in the street. 

One witness said that one of the mail carriers “punched the window on the other one’s mail truck,” and that “one backed up and slammed into the other one like bumper cars.”

Another witness, Brenda Rippetoe, said, “There was mail all over the street. They kept going around the block, and at one point, they were front-to-front, ramming their bumpers together.” 

Residents called 911 about the distirbance, and the postal service sent other carriers to pick up the mail, which was delivered locally by 7 p.m. 

People along the route said their regular carrier was on vacation, so the angry stand-ins were unfamiliar to them.