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Originally Posted by warrenly
The reason you don't hear of Walmart employees going postal is because they can't afford to buy the guns they sell. And "going postal" pretty much applies to anyone disgruntled enough to go to their workplace or former workplace and put the smackdown on their bosses and/or coworkers. The term was coined after an Oklahoma post office shooting in 1986. These days I hear of it happening a lot more at factories and offices than any post offices.
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You are right. The higher instances of violence in post offices is no more than a myth, as a
postal commission study showed. Props to you and lisarea. Nevertheless,
CNN reported "The new analysis noted that postal workers file an unusually high number of grievances and equal-employment complaints and said the backlog can take years to resolve, increasing tensions between labor and management." In response to the series of violent incidents in the 1980's the USPS did almost everything it could to stamp out the violence. But the root of the problem still persists.
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One more point made by Abe. Real estate and taxes are not higher in rural areas than in cities, at least around here. You don't have to go more than 20 miles away from Tulsa and land prices drop considerably. A 1/4 acre building lot in Tulsa would cost $20K-30K, you can get 10 acres on the outskirts of Mannford for that price.
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You are understanding me backward. I said, "People in
urban areas must pay a higher price for home rent and ownership." And my point in saying that was that people living in rural areas should bear what is now the public costs of living in rural areas, just as people living in urban areas have to pay a higher rent.