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The price for this exercise in gratuitous violence: $50. Pocked with fake bullet holes, it invites game players to 'spray protesters, mow down marching bands and charbroil whole towns.' It also clearly is rated for players age 17 and older. The box for 'Postal,' published by Ripcord Games, should tip off parents as to what's inside. Most games take aim at monsters, droids and aliens. The main objection to 'Postal' is that players use the main character to shoot, incinerate and maim representations of human bystanders and police en masse. Not since gamers ripped out the still-beating hearts of combatants in 'Mortal Kombat' has a digital game whipped up so much controversy. Postmaster General Marvin Runyon was so concerned that the game perpetuated stereotypes about postal workers that he wrote a letter to Running With Scissors earlier this year, protesting the game's 'very poor taste' and its 'unfair portrayal' of the nation's mail carriers. In September, a Miami Beach postal worker shot his ex-wife and a friend as they stood in line at a post office, then killed himself. In the past decade, 'going postal' has become a colloquialism for shootings by postal workers - starting with the 1986 slaying of 15 postal workers in Edmond, Okla., by a colleague. 'This video game portrays all postal workers in the worst way,' a voice mail message tells callers to the Phoenix local of the American Postal Workers Union. But mail carriers' union members in Phoenix are boycotting the game.

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