Do postal workers really go postal?

[Flymaster]

*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?

[Wendell_Wagner]

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.

[IzzyR]

*Originally posted by Wendell Wagner *
Michael Bellesiles Arming America.

I believe his work is hotly disputed.

[kniz]

*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.

I can’t speak for how the Post Office is now.**

• from** Modern Humorist***
  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.