What does it mean to go "postal" and who coined this term?
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It means to get angry, to the point of violence, but I think that it carries a current of completely irrational violent behavior.\n\nPostal workers are the archetypal pissed-off employees. That reputation began on or about August 20, 1986, when a disgruntled postal worker opened fire on his co-workers, killing 13 of them. Over the next seven years, there were nine more such incidents involving postal workers, and a total of 34 people were killed. These gruesome statistics are the source not only of postal workers' violent reputation, but also of the phrase go postal that is still used today with dark humor. \n\nThe good news is that the workplace homicide rate is going down. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 1,080 workplace murders in the U.S. in 1994, but "only" 677 in 2000 (an increase from the 651 recorded in 1999). This mirrors the overall rate of workplace violence. Although there were over 802,000 incidents reported in 2000 (according the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics), that figure is down from the 1,064,000 incidents reported in 1996.
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Hey I have to give you credit...first how do you even have your mailman's phone number?  Heck, I don't even know the name of mine. \n\nI would say the post office but maybe I am just a little behind the times?  ha!
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The USPS ( United States Postal Service) but only from military address to military address,eg, post to post. Write MPS ( Military Postal Service) on the corner where the stamp goes.
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In 1971, the first e-mail was typed into the Teletype terminal connected to the Digital Equipment PDP-10. \nThe message was transmitted via ARPAnet, the progenitor of the Internet, to the PDP-10 in front. Dan Murphy, a Digital engineer, sent that.
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POP stands for Post Office Protocol, an e-mail standard.  Yahoo does support it, but charges you an anual fee.  You can't get around it, sorry.
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The location of post office, time, date and country etc. etc.
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look here:http://www.usps.com/
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It can mean either a point later in time, or a person  further along in the organizational chain.\n\nIt was originally a English Naval term referring to messages being passed from ship to ship.
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There is some debate about the source of the term, but the generally accepted version is that it comes from the Monty Python song, "Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam…" Like the song, spam is an endless repetition of worthless text. Another school of thought maintains that it comes from the computer group lab at the University of Southern California who gave it the name because it has many of the same characteristics as the lunchmeat Spam: \n\nNobody wants it or ever asks for it. \nNo one ever eats it; it is the first item to be pushed to the side when eating the entree. \nSometimes it is actually tasty, like 1% of junk mail that is really useful to some people.
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The answer is mailman.
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in the past, one who recieve mail was asked to pay for the mail, so alot of time's it happened that people didn't agree to recieve mail, (if they didn't know the sender or anyoter reason), and so didn't pay!! \nthen it was changed and the sender like nowadays is asked to pay for sending mail.\nas said, the stamps are proof (or a recieve) for paying money for sending mail.\nwhen you send mail you are getting service,many people are needed in order to get your letter to it's reciver, so you have to pay for it.\n\nanyway, why not put stamps on our mail, its very cool right?
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General consensus is that the term originates from a Monty Python skit.\n\nA couple are attempting to order breakfast at a restaurant where all the menu items feature spam. The woman doesn't like spam, and asks the waitress if they offer any spam free dishes. Alas - there is no escape from spam.\n\nMeanwhile a chorus of vikings at another table express their appreciation for spam by chanting "spam, spam, spam, lovely spam!"\n\nEventually any hope of meaningful communication is lost in the drone of "spam."\n\nSound Familiar?
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Could be:\n\nThe guy who brings your paper.\n\nThe guy who brings your mail.\n\nA Naval vessel they launch aircraft from.\n\nA bag you carry things in.\n\nA basket mounted on a bicycle.\n\nA type of cage to transport a pet.\n\nAn armored military vehicle used to carry troops in.\n\nA person or animal that has a disease but doesn't get sick from it.\n\nA telephone service provider.\n\nA DSL service provider.\n\nA type of pigeon (extinct)\n\nI hope thats enough. If not let me know and I'll add more
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1.  items sent: the letters, cards, periodicals, and packages that are handled and distributed in a postal system \nIs there any mail for me? \n 2.  postal system: the system that handles the collection and delivery of mail (often used before a noun) \nsend it by mail \n 3.  specific mail collection or delivery: a particular collection or delivery of letters, cards, periodicals, and packages \nIt came in yesterday’s mail. \n 4.  vehicle delivering mail: a car, train, ship, aircraft, or other vehicle used to collect and deliver mail  \n5.  comput e-mail: e-mail (informal)  \n6.  history armor: a kind of flexible armor made of interlocking metal rings or overlapping plates  \n7.  zoology hard body covering: the hard protective body covering of some animals, for example, turtles and crabs
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From  Word Detective :\n\n""Pushing the envelope" is a good example of how jargon -- the specialized or technical vocabulary of a group or profession -- gradually enters general usage. "Pushing the envelope" comes from the jargon of test pilots, and has actually been around since the end of the Second World War. The "envelope" involved is a sort of visual metaphor for the technical limits of a high-performance aircraft. A graph of such an aircraft's performance would appear as a rising slope as the craft approaches its limits of speed and stress, then fall off rapidly (putting it mildly) when the plane exceeds its capacity and the pilot loses control. Safety, relatively speaking, lies within these limits, or "inside the envelope." A pilot who "pushes the envelope" and tries to exceed the known capabilities of the aircraft risks what engineers delicately term "catastrophic system failure," otherwise known as a crash. \n\nBecause "pushing the envelope" had such a esoteric origin, it took a best-selling book -- Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff" in 1979 -- and later the popular movie "Top Gun" to introduce it to the general public. Since then it has begun to crop up in increasingly non-technical contexts, to the point where it is now a currently trendy metaphor for simply "pushing it," or testing the limits of what is permissible in a given situation."
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"Who chose cake?"\n\nIt's exact etymology is unclear but this much is certain: the British coined the phrase. \n\n"The first documented appearance of the term is in 1943, in an small book of British military slang, although sources claim it was used in the RAF throughout World War Two, and was originally a Yorkshire dialect term in use at least since 1914."
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If you are referring to the Internet (which is the category of this question), POP stands for Post Office Protocol. POP3 is the method many of us use to send e-mail. The companion portocol for *receiving* e-mails is SMTP (Simple Message Transfer Protocol).