GC107V9 Going Postal (Traditional Cache) in Victoria, Australia created by Scooters Mob

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Hidden : 1/7/2007

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This is a fairly open location so you will need to be careful when retrieving and replacing the container, there are many muggles around even if you cannot see them

Going Postal
A Tribute to Those Who Died

I decided to research the term after I had heard it being used a number of times both at work and in my circle of friends.

There are many references on the web that refer to this phenomenon and most of them account for people who have been pushed to far and have snapped and taken out their rage on those around them.

The information here represents only a little of that available of the web and some of the articles conflicts with others, but you should get the general idea.

While doing this cache please take a little time to “stop and smell the roses”, de-stress a little and take it easy.

Remember Geocaching is not about how many you can get done but it is about the journey and discovering new places etc, so take it easy.

When it was first Used.

The first recorded usage of this term that I can find goes back to Canada October 1934 when Rosaire Bilodeau, ex carrier of the Quebec postal service, drove five of his family out in the woods - in two trips - and did away with them.
He then took 8 shots at postmaster Morin, senior mail clerk Moise Jolicoeur, and divisional superintendant Oscar Fiset, killing the last. [Family Herald and Weekly Star, 1934 Oct 31, p48]

Memoral to Fallen Postal Workers

Memorial of the 1986 post office incident in Edmond, Oklahoma.
Going postal is an American English slang term, used as a verb meaning to become extremely angry,possibly to the point of violence.

The term derives from a series of incidents in which United States Postal Service (USPS) workers shot and killed managers, fellow workers, and members of the police or general public.

Between 1986 and 1997, more than 40 people were killed in at least 20 incidents of workplace rage.
Following this series of events, the idiom entered common parlance and has been applied to murders committed by employees in acts of workplace rage, irrespective of the employer; and generally to describe fits of rage in or outside the workplace.

This term first appeared in print was on December 17, 1993 in the St. Petersburg Times.

The symposium was sponsored by the U.S. Postal Service, which has seen so many outbursts that in some circles excessive stress is known as "going postal." However, it probably became popular when it was used in the 1995 film Clueless. Author Terry Pratchett used the phrase as the title of a novel published in 2004.

Significant incidents

Patrick Sherrill - first to "go postal" in Edmond, Oklahoma On August 20, 1986, 14 employees were shot dead and six wounded at the Edmond, Oklahoma, post office by a postman, Patrick Sherrill, who then committed suicide with a shot to the forehead.

On November 14, 1991 in Royal Oak, Michigan, Thomas McIlvane killed five people, including himself, with a Ruger .22-caliber rifle in Royal Oak's post office, after being fired from the Postal Service for alleged time-card fraud.

Another incident occurred on the evening of January 30, 2006, at a large postal processing facility in Goleta, near Santa Barbara, California. Police said that Jennifer San Marco, a former postal employee, killed six postal employees, including one critically wounded who later died, before committing suicide with a handgun.
Police later also identified a seventh victim; Beverly Graham, 54, was found dead in a condominium complex in Goleta where San Marco once lived.
The other dead included Charlotte Colton, 44; Ze Fairchild, 37, and Maleka Higgins, 28, both of Santa Barbara; Nicola Grant, 42, and Guadalupe Swartz, 52, both of Lompoc; and Dexter Shannon, 57, of Oxnard.

According to media reports, the Postal Service had forced San Marco to retire in 2003 because of her worsening mental problems.
Her choice of victims also may have been racially motivated;
San Marco had a previous history of racial prejudice, and tried to obtain a business license for a newspaper of her own ideas, called Racist Times, in New Mexico. This incident is believed to be the deadliest workplace shooting ever carried out in the United States by a woman.

Let's keep Australia from "Going Postal"... go Geocahing instead! Ahhh, I feel relaxed already...

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Sebag YU Yrt Qba'g chfu pnpur hc vagb gur obk jura ercynpvat vg.

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A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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