Going Postal (2004) (edit title/settings)

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• Moist Von Lipwig: Ex-con artist and Postmaster General.
• Lord Havelock Vetinari: The Patrician: The ruler of Ankh-Morpork.
• Tolliver Groat: One of the last remaining postmen. He distrusts doctors, so he brews his own medicine. He lives in the post office.
• Mr. Pump: A Golem who, by government orders, protects Mr. Lipwick.
• Igor: Mr. Guilt's servant.
• Mr. Greenyham: Banker, treasurer of the grand trunk and embezzler.
• Miss Iodine Maccalariat: Woman with the appearance of a spinster school teacher.
• Mr. George Pony: The Grand Trunk's chief engineer
• "Unsure Adrian" Emery: One of the occupants of the Post Office's roof.
• Rufus Drumknott: Chief Clerk to Lord Vetinari.
• Reacher Gilt: Director of the Grand Trunk.
• Mr. Harry King: Scrap Merchant.
• Boris: Horse, with a devilish temper.
• Mr. Robinson: One of Mr. Lipwick's alias.
• Mr. Spools: One of the half owners of Teemer and Spools.
• Mustrum Ridcully: Archchancellor of the Unseen University
• Mr. Willie Hobson: Owner of Hobson's Livery Stable.
• Mr. Crispin Horsefry: The Grand Trunk's book keeper.
• Mr. Gryle: A Banshee.
• Mr. Slant: A zombie and one of the most renowed, expensive, and oldest lawyer in the city.
• Mr. Wilkinson: An amenable and pleasent warder at Tanty prison.
• Dave: Owner of Dave's Pin Exchange.
• Roger: A worker of the Grand Trunk.
• Albert Spangler: One of Mr. Lipwick's alias.
• George Aggy: Senior Postman and Worshipful Master of The Order of The Post.
• Mr. Antimony Parker: Owner of Parker & Son's Greengrocer's High Class Fruit and Vegetables.
• Anghammarad: Nineteen thousand year old golem.
• Mr. Ponder Stibbons: Wizard at the Unseen University.
• "Sane Alex" Carlton: One of the occupants of the Post Office's roof.
• Grandad: Tower Master for clacks tower 181.
• Mr. Devious Collabone: Also known as "Dragonbreath" Collabone, he was dispatched to Genua by Ridcully to research shellfish.
• Miss Sacharissa Cripslock: Journalist.
• Stowley: Financial Advisor.
• Miss Adora Belle Dearheart: Manager of the Golem Trust.
• "Mad Al" Winton: One of the occupants of the Post Office's roof.
• Mr. Daniel "One Drop" Trooper: Official public executioner for Ankh-Morpork.
• Gladys: Post Office worker (cleans women's restrooms, assists the Postmaster). A golem.
• Ladislav Pelc: Current Prehumous Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy.
• Stanley Howler: Aprentice postman. Also a "pinhead".
• Alice: Thirteen year old girl, also knwon as Princess by the clacks men on tower 181.
• Harry "Slugger" Upwright: Son of Big Jim "Still Standing"" Upwright and twin brother of Little Jim "Leadpipe" Upwright, owner of the stagecoaches that once belonged to the Post Office.
• Little Jim "Leadpipe" Upwright: Son of Big Jim "Still Standing"" Upwright and twin brother of Harry "Slugger" Upwright, owner of the stagecoaches that once belonged to the Post Office.

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• “Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.”

  Mustrum Ridcully

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• ALWAYS REMEMBER that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

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• Steal five dollars and you were a petty thief. Steal thousands of dollars and you were either a government or a hero.

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• They’d saved the city with gold more easily, at that point, than any hero could have managed with steel. But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever—provided, naturally, that you don’t go and look. This is known as Finance.

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• You had to admire the way perfectly innocent words were mugged, ravished, stripped of all true meaning and decency, and then sent to walk the gutter for Reacher Gilt, although “synergistically” had probably been a whore from the start.

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• SOMETIMES THE TRUTH is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

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• Freedom may be mankind’s natural state, but so is sitting in a tree eating your dinner while it is still wriggling.

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• Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you’re going to behave, I shan’t bring you again.

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• Headquarters had even started an Employee of the Month scheme to show how much they cared. That was how much they didn’t care.

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• Fooling dishonest men was a lot safer and, somehow, more sporting. And, of course, there were so many more of them. You hardly had to aim.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Ankh-Morpork: The largest city on the Disc
• Genua
• Trunk
• Pseudopolis
• Sto Lat

First Sentence edit see section history

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by A Hat Full of Sky, and followed by Thud!.

Followed by Making Money.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Terry Pratchett (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Nebula (Finalist, 2005: Best Novel)
• Locus Fantasy Award (2005, Nominee)

Classification edit see section history

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• Dewey: 813

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Authors, A-Z › ( P ) › Pratchett, Terry
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Comic
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

Movie Connections edit see section history

• Going Postal (IMDb): A two-part TV special from the people also responsible for Hogfather and The Colour of Magic

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