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Some jobs are bad enough to knock a guy off his rocker. If ''one more person'' [[Office Space|comes by and tells them to put the new TPS cover on the TPS report]], they will go on a murderous rampage.

Named after a series of incidents involving U.S. Postal Service workers going on killing sprees <ref>dating as far back as 1983, and occurring most infamously in Oklahoma, 1986</ref> that has henceforth become a part of popular culture.

 

 

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* The ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' doujin ''"I'm working at a mahou shoujo recruitment company, but I think I may be at my limit"'' has {{spoiler|Kyubey}} going on one of these near the end. {{spoiler|Being screwed out of good work by his only friend in the workplace (when he's already in danger of being fired) and then finding out that he's been doing the nasty with his wife on the side and that the kid she's carrying isn't his was just too much for our favorite [[Starfish Alien]]}}.

 

* ''[[Judge Dredd]]'': A lot of people suffer from this. It is known as Future Shock or ''Going Futsie.'' Interesting in that it is treated as a medical condition, rather than a crime.

* The comic ''[[Irredeemable]]'' is the story of the day a [[Superman]] [[Captain Ersatz]] goes entirely and globally postal.

** To be fair, Foster only intentionally kills one person (A Neo-Nazi) and rarely hurts anyone else, and the film is very sympathetic to his perception of the world and how it is formed.

* The main characters in ''[[Office Space]]'' joke about doing this early in the film, in order to establish just how terrible their jobs are. {{spoiler|One of the minor characters actually does.}}

* ''[[Jumanji]]'': when Van Pelt goes to the gun shop, the salesman's reply is "You're not a postal worker, are you?"

* ''[[Jingle All the Way]]'' has Sinbad's character, who even had a spare homemade bombs package.

* This surprisingly never occurs in the horror film ''The Mailman''. The villain is a murderer, though not one of this type.

 

* One of the group reaps in ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' involves this scenario. We don't see the actual shooting, and it (somewhat surprisingly, for this show) isn't played for laughs.

 

== [[Music]] ==

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* The videogame titled ''[[Postal]]'', and its sequel. It's basically [[The Sims]] meets [[Grand Theft Auto]].

** Or to be more precise, [[Anal Cunt]] in video game form.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' has a postman revealing he was laid off and feeling disgruntled. The other passengers quickly vacate the car... only for him to swing around as he wanted space.

 

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