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By Charles Montaldo, About.com Guide to Crime / Punishment since 2004

It's Official. 'Going Postal' Is an Epidemic

Monday November 17, 2008
Workplace violence has reached epidemic proportions, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, with an average of three or four supervisors killed each month in the United States. The term "going postal" came into our vocabulary on August 20, 1986, at a post office in Edmond, Oklahoma. It did not end there, however. Read more...

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