In the original Postal 2: Share The Pain, you played once again as Postal Dude (or P.Dude for short) during the 5 day business week carrying out various chores for his (of course) bitchy wife. These included picking up his paycheck, cashing his paycheck, getting milk, getting a signed book from Gary Coleman (who makes a cameo), obtaining a Christmas Tree, obtaining stuff to kill the weeds in his lawn. The whole tagline for the game was "it's only as violent as you are" - explaining how you could take a total pacifist route, waiting in lines, not exploring areas you should not, and generally, just doing what you were told, all the way to a flat out, full wanted level, homocidal rampage killing everyone in sight to achieve your goals.

In August 2004, an expansion pack - now referred to as DLC - was released, called "Apocalypse Weekend" - which added Saturday and Sunday missions to the story. The story here begins with Postal Dude in the hospital after a self-inflicted gunshot wound, trying to escape while having psychotic episodes of Scissors Armed Gary Coleman Zombies running around trying to knife him to death. After he gets out of the hospital, he's given a couple Government Jobs, and a few revenge missions by his former employer - RWS of course - with Creator Vince Desi and Mike J. (not me) making a cameo. The entire section of the game starts a whole "Zombie Apocalypse" trope based around topical items of the time such as Mad Cow Disease (mad cow disease) and Taliban Terrorists, eventually bringing the game to it's ultimate conclusion.....one where things get EXTREMELEY WEIRD!. This option also added some more nuclear weapons and melee weapons. HOwever, this particular part of the release made being a violent fighter a lot more mandatory in the game.

Over the course of 2005-2008, fans of the franchise started to put together the two packs into what eventually became the "AWP" expansion - aka "A Week In Paradise" or "Apocalypse Weekend all 7 days" mission - tying the newer DLC and the older "Share The Pain" release together, and adding more weapons and options to the game - allowing one to play all 7 days as a straight long mission. Things slowly started to expand and evolve from there, to a point that I kinda' lost track for about 15 years between 2008 and 2023 when I picked the game up again around it's 20th birthday with any sort of seriousness to vent my frustrations with some real life difficulties at the time (which is what keeps drawing me back to Postal again and again BTW). Eventually these fanmade modes and some of their options - including some fanmade horror expansion I forgot the name of that was totally unrelated to the original game - which gave some of it's weapons such as the Sub Machine Gun and MultiMode rapidfire pistol to your arsenal. This all eventually became the official AWP7 Expansion RWS sold.

I bought Postal 2 in 2005 from a company called "SoftWrap" (more like SoftCrap), who sold the ORIGINAL version of this game as it was, just Postal 2: Share the Pain. It quickly became my general stress relief game. Little did I know, Running with Scissors and others would be taking Postal 2 to new heights over the next 2-3 decades! Seriously, it's soon 2025, and we're all still playing this Unreal Engine based FPS from 2005, just heavily modified. Many a night I'd probably terrified the crap out of my thick skinned room mate with my insane violent anger fests as the result of stupid people....and people have only gotten stupider since then, so you can reckon already where I'm going with this.

Soon came my first encounter with DLC (Downloadable Content) - "Apocalypse Weekend", so I bought that on sale on Softwrap IIRC, and played that quite a lot. I still have the old Softwrap installers after Softwrap screwed me a few times with this game and it's prequel. Eventually, SoftWrap went under, I vaguely even recall RWS having a reference of it in AW, maybe the original version of the "Previous Publisher". Either way, more weapons, more violent outlet for me when people piss me off.

Around 2007 or so, we started to hear rumblings of a few different fan-made expansions for Postal 2. First was "A Week in Paradise" - which took Postal 2 Share the Pain, and the AW weekend, and tied them together neatly, and added some more weapons and power-ups. So for awhile in 07', I was back into Postal a bit. One of these was called Eternal Damnation, which basically scrubbed Postal 2 of all of it's characters and wrote a whole new story involving hell, the devil, and exploring various sites and fighting various creatures and zombies. Basically, it was a Zombie Apocalypse story that takes place in an Apartment, a Dinosaur Museum, and some kind of factory place.

As I got older and started integrating myself back into society after the hermit years, I kinda' shied away from the Postal series for awhile since the people around me, mostly judgy Seattle Millennials (who are generally VERY soft), would probably have tried to sabotage my then relationship now marriage more than they already tried to using this information. Honestly, they are kind of the reason I got back into postal again.

Me and Postal reuinted around 2017 or 2018 when I started rebuilding CreepingNet 486 (Postal), and got a Steam Account due to Five Nights at Freddy's - yeah, talk about a wide gamut. From a darn-near kid friendly horror about possessed animatronics, all the way to a homocidal maniac on the loose looking like some kind of grown up version of a 1990's school shooter stereotype.

Thing is, Postal 2 is one of the great last gasps of a larger companies games that I ever had an experience with, so it's little surprise to me it's still around after 20 years. And right now, with the political fuckery going on, social fuckery going on, AI Fuckery going on, I'm surprised it has not become popular. Not since a Hot Topic Goth social clicque in the early 2000's have I seen so many sarcastic, cranky, dark humor people as I do now. Problem is, we all hate each other it seems anyway. So why not vent that anger through a video game, as a healthy outlet.

The game just keeps getting better with age as they add more weapons, cheats, achievements. I don't want to mention it but even one of my favorite bands got their album cover as an achievement (not so sure they want to be mentioned as a part of it though....but that was a nice surprise - let's just say you survive until the weekend, hehe). The new weapons such as the submachine gun, semi-auto pistol, and probably my favorite melee weapon - the machete, are awesome.