# Do postal workers really go postal?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-postal-workers-really-go-postal/94376>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 20, 2001, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-postal-workers-really-go-postal/94376 "2001-11-20T12:45:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-postal-workers-really-go-postal/94376/21 "2001-11-21T05:37:57Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Wendell Wagner \*  
> \*\*It was also less common in the 19th century than in the 20th century for people to own guns. \*\*

Cite?

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-postal-workers-really-go-postal/94376/22 "2001-11-21T06:02:59Z")

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Michael Bellesiles _Arming America_.

I haven’t read that book actually, but I’ve read reviews of it, and I’ve read _A Necessary Evil_ by Garry Wills, which uses Bellesiles’s research.

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**Author:** ![IzzyR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@IzzyR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IzzyR)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-postal-workers-really-go-postal/94376/23 "2001-11-21T19:48:45Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Wendell Wagner \*  
> Michael Bellesiles _Arming America_.

I believe his work is hotly disputed.

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**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-postal-workers-really-go-postal/94376/24 "2001-11-21T20:21:35Z")

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> \*Originally posted by yosemitebabe \*  
> \*\*There was this particular shade of horrifed green he’d develop whenever we’d get anything shipped to us via UPS. As if it were blasphemy.
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> I can’t speak for how the Post Office is now.\*\*

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> - from[\*\* Modern Humorist\*\*\*](http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0110/war/)  
> The United States Postal Service is seeking $5 billion in appropriations from the federal government to offset damages from anthrax attacks and safeguard its systems and personnel from future threats. **Postal Service officials requested the check be either FedExed or hand delivered.**

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