“Going postal”: we’ve all heard the saying. But do you know where it came from? Well, today you will. Americans more or less know that going postal means to lose it – go crazy – usually to the point of being homicidal, typically in response to workplace stress, and specifically in a postal office.
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The truth is, most people use the saying rather sarcastically, as a joke, as in, “Man, if I keep having to do this, I’m gonna go postal on this place.” The saying may have been used mockingly, at least for a while, but the events that sparked the term “going postal” are anything but funny…