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The term ‘going postal’ refers to getting uncontrollably angry in the workplace and derives from mass shootings by postal workers before the age of school shootings. Do we have an explanation for why these shootings became so prominent and what was done to stop them?

by /u/dreadful_name in /r/AskHistorians

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