Post Description

The player takes on the role of "The Postal Dude", a tall thin man with a 
goatee, sunglasses, a blue alien t-shirt, and a long black leather coat. The 
Postal Dude also wears a Happy Smiley pin on his right lapel and a cross pin on 
his left one. The Postal Dude lives in a trailer park with his nagging wife 
(only identified in the credits as 'Postal Dude's Bitch') in the town of 
Paradise, Arizona.

The game levels are split into days of the week starting Monday and finishing 
Friday. At the beginning of each day, Dude is given several tasks to accomplish, 
such as 'Get milk', 'Confess sins', and other seemingly mundane tasks. The 
purpose of the game is to finish all of the tasks throughout the week, and the 
player can accomplish these tasks in any way he wishes, be it as civilly or as 
chaotically as possible (it is possible, if occasionally difficult, to complete 
most tasks without engaging in battle, or, at least, killing other people). The 
daily tasks can be accomplished in any order, and the game includes one task 
that is only activated on a certain day if Dude performs a certain action.

Dude must put up with being flipped the bird, mugged, attacked by protesters, 
put upon by an obnoxious convenience store owner/terrorist and his patrons who 
cut before Dude in the "money-line", plus a marching band, a murderous toy 
mascot named Krotchy, the police and SWAT team, the ATF and the National Guard, 
a religious cult, savage butchers, psycho Al-Qaeda terrorists, and Gary Coleman, 
among many other things.