Why Postal Employees Go Postal

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

1993 was known as the peak of a disturbing trend in America: post office shootings, carried out by postal workers. A stunned country looked for answers and turned up a toxic workplace that seemed to be driving some workers past their breaking point.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
0:41.3	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.7	Oh boy, it's gonna be a long year.
0:45.4	I'm Josh, there's Chuck.
0:47.4	There's Jerry over there.
0:49.4	And this is Step You Should Know.
0:52.4	2020.
0:54.4	Maybe long year.
0:55.8	The year is always the same length.
0:57.4	I almost forgot the word podcast and the intro.
1:00.0	That's an indicator.
1:01.0	It's gonna be a long year.
1:02.0	We're only gonna do this.
1:03.0	Subjectively.
1:04.0	We're only gonna do this a hundred more times.
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