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Dec 14, 2021 · From 1970 to 1997, postal workers killed more than 40 people in the workplace across the U.S., and in 1993 the St. Petersburg Times (Now The Tampa Bay Times) officially coined the phrase, per Phrases.
Going Postal is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 33rd book in his Discworld series, released in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2004. Unlike most of Pratchett's Discworld novels, Going Postal is divided into chapters, a feature previously seen only in Pratchett's children's books and the Science of Discworld ...
- Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs
- 2004
A con artist becomes the Postmaster General of Ankh-Morpork, a fantasy city in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Watch the trailer, see the cast and crew, and read user and critic reviews of this 2010 adaptation.
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It isn’t known who exactly started the phrase “going postal” but what is clear is that it was already a common phrase among Americans at that time. The stereotype was undoubtedly due to several incidents involving postal workers from 1986 to 1993.
'Going postal' means becoming uncontrollably angry, often in a violent way. The phrase originated from a series of shootings by US postal workers in the 1980s and 1990s.
Terry Pratchett's Going Postal is a two-part television film adaptation of Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, adapted by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle and produced by The Mob, which was first broadcast on Sky1, and in high definition on Sky1 HD, at the end of May 2010.
Jan 1, 2004 · Terry Pratchett. 4.40. 125,513 ratings4,625 reviews. Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It was a tough decision.
