Going postal
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Going postal, in American English slang, means becoming extremely and uncontrollably angry, often to the point of violence, and usually in a workplace environment.
The expression derives from a series of incidents from 1983 onward in which United States Postal Service (USPS) workers shot and killed managers, fellow workers, and members of the police or general public in acts of mass murder. Between 1986 and 1997, more than forty people were gunned down by spree killers in at least twenty incidents of workplace rage.
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See also
- 2010 Panama City school board shootings
- Amok
- Fragging
- List of postal killings
- List of massacres
- Road rage
- Spree killer
- School shooting
- Son of Sam – serial killer who worked for the postal service
- List of rampage killers (workplace killings)
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