Introduction

There were a series of shootings in the late 80s and early 90s committed by postal workers. There were 20 mass shootings in which 40 people died. The big wave was between 1986 and 1990, but it's not that the postal mass shootings actually stopped. It's just that the country stopped paying attention to them. And when you think about it, it's actually really not cool that we had this cute phrase going postal.