Dogs are the natural villains in any book by or about mail carriers-and that's certainly true in "Tales of Yore, The Mail Carriers' Revenge," a collection of favorite anecdotes of real-life mail carriers. Here, dogs are humorously trashed, trounced, and vilified in a most satisfactory manner. However, not all dogs are bad. "Tales of Yore" also includes light-hearted stories of inept dogs, misunderstood dogs, some vicious critters that aren't even dogs-and yes, even a few good dogs.

"Tales of Yore" is about people too, as postal people are kind of like dogs. You've got your good ones,...