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Originally posted by Flame On@Oct 25 2004, 05:22 PM
DIS, I was absolutely not denigrating postal work or workers. I was indeed just using the old "going postal" cliche.
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It's interesting, the USPS does not like being associated with that term. You can't say it at work, you could get in trouble for it.
I still think it's a funny term, going postal. The rest of the workforce has taken over in workplace shootings though. I can't remember the last time I heard of a post office getting shot up by a disgruntled worker. (Why are they always disgruntled? Never just unhappy?)
Still, the term going postal will stick because of the specificity of what that entails.