[Andrew_S]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') female ex-postal worker has shot dead six people at a sorting office in California, before committing suicide.

One other person was said to be in a critical condition, the authorities said. All the victims were believed to be postal employees.

[Specop_007]

There hasnt been a post office shooting in quite a few years.

[Daculling]

From the Wiki

There is no consensus as to whether the incidence of workplace murder in the US Postal Service is atypical. Some defense counsels for perpetrators have suggested that a culture of poor or oppressive management leads to mental breakdown and loss of control on the part of employees. On the other hand, in 2000 the USPS released a study which refuted the belief that postal employees were particularly prone to this behaviour, concluding instead that workplace violence at USPS was around the average for comparable American workplaces.

It seems that piss poor management causes people to go insane. When I worked at CompUSA we called it "Going Compostal". I think the postal service is sort of a "Poster Child" for workplace violence in the US but really no more violent than any other. The term and belief that the postal service is violent might also have something to do with John Wayne Gacy who was a famous serial killer in the late 70's and a postman. Maybe someone here can tell us if this term was in use before his time... I'm too young to remember.

[TommyJefferson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Andrew_S', 'W')hat is it with American post offices? Are they especially stressful or is the pay just shit?

[frankthetank]

SEinFELD

Episode #418

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')ewman: Because the mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and

coming, there's never a let-up. It's relentless. Every day it

piles up more and more and more! And you gotta get it out but the

more you get it out the more it keeps coming in. And then the bar

code reader breaks and it's *Publisher's Clearing House* day!!!

[PrairieMule]

FEDEX and UPS are both giving the post office are run for the money. Have anyone ever heard of a UPS man or FEDEX employee going Beserk with a gun at work? All I have heard about was their stock options outweighing the stress of the job.

[oil4u]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', 'F')EDEX and UPS are both giving the post office are run for the money. Have anyone ever heard of a UPS man or FEDEX employee going Beserk with a gun at work? All I have heard about was their stock options outweighing the stress of the job.

[The_Virginian]

This phenomina disturbs me.

(this following story was told to me by an 80ish y.o. Barber who remembers when Horses were the main stream transport in Virginia)


In the OLD DAYS, when a good man went BAD he wrapped a towel around his head, so that when the shotgun went off, the brains would not splatter on the walls. Making an easy to clean up for others.

NOW THAT IS CARING!

Today, not only do they harm themselves, but they decide to take out others before they go...

sick sick sick.

[Denny]

This from trhe Barrie, ON Examiner:

"Man upset with mail delivery
A man barricaded himself in his house yesterday after threatening to kill his Canada Post mail carrier and his family because he was unhappy with his service.

Barrie police were called to the Veterans Drive house, at which point the suspect barricaded himself in the home.

Police entered and were confronted by the angry man who threw a number of items, including chess pieces, at officers.

Officers utilized a Taser gun to stun the man. The suspect was arrested and taken to Royal Victoria Hospital where he was held for a psychiatric assessment. "

Chess pieces?

Funny thing was many years ago, I was supervisor in a mail depot and we had one customer who called two or three times a week, claiming his letter carrier was trying to "ruin" him. Claimed the carrier intentionally slammed the screen door and made excess noise in putting mail through the door slot, and purposely scared his dog, and even thought much of his mail was being stolen. He even claimed the carrier was stealing his garden flowers.

So one day, we worked out a scam at the postal station, we put him on hold, and then had another guy inside answer "Queen Street Mental Health Centre, may I help you?"

He never called again after that.

Some customers are not always right!