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go postal 

To exact calculated revenge on co-workers or schoolmates, usually with a firearm, after being fired or expelled or just feeling extremely hard-done-by.

Software tester Michael McDermott shot and killed seven co-workers in 2000 after having his pay docked to cover back taxes.
A disgruntled former worker went postal today leaving seven dead, including two accountants he had accused of being 'Nazis' the day before.
go postal by bee May 13, 2005
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go postal 

to succumb to fatigue and tension, to be become violently angry(from a series of incidents from the mid 80s to the 90s where various postal workers went on shooting rampages)
I will not let him go postal in plain sight.

Go postal 

To go apeshit with pure hatred and blind anger, termed after workplace shootings perputrated by postal service / mail service employees. Going postal involves taking a firearm to place of work or anywhere and just unloading into everything in sight.
*gunfire in workplace*
*secetary bolts through office door*
Secretary : "TERRY'S FINALLY DONE IT, HE'S DECIDED TO Go Postal!"
*screams in hall outside door as boots stomp down hall*
Boss : "shit lol"
Go postal by grandest of autismo April 22, 2021

go postal 

To loose touch with someone for a long time. Not talk to someone in a while.
You go postal on me all the time and I only hear from you every 3 months.
go postal by Boopboop June 25, 2007
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