Editing United States Postal Service (section)

=== Workplace violence ===
{{See also|Edmond post office shooting|List of postal killings#United States}}

In the early 1990s, widely publicized [[Workplace violence|workplace shootings]] by disgruntled employees at USPS facilities led to a Human Resource effort to provide care for stressed workers and resources for coworker conflicts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2012/pb22341/html/info_003.htm#ep1440011 |title=Human Resources |publisher=About.usps.com |access-date=March 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130627021829/http://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2012/pb22341/html/info_003.htm#ep1440011 |archive-date=June 27, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> Due to media coverage, postal employees gained a reputation among the general public as more likely to be [[Mental disorder|mentally ill]]. The USPS Commission on a Safe and Secure Workplace found that "Postal workers are only a third as likely as those in the national workforce to be victims of homicide at work."<ref>[http://www.usps.com/communications/news/press/2006/pr06_0131commission.htm USPS Commission on a Safe and Secure Workplace, January 31, 2006] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629130030/http://www.usps.com/communications/news/press/2006/pr06_0131commission.htm |date=June 29, 2011 }}. Retrieved October 10, 2007.</ref> In the documentary ''Murder by Proxy: How America Went Postal'', it was argued that this number failed to factor out workers killed by external subjects rather than by fellow employees.

This series of events in turn has influenced American culture, as seen in the slang term "[[going postal]]".<ref name="vick">Vick, Karl, "Violence at work tied to loss of esteem", ''St. Petersburg Times'', December 17, 1993</ref><ref>"The Year in Review 1993", ''Los Angeles Times'', December 31, 1993</ref>