Two hours into this three hour would be epic, Cranky thought to himself that it wasn't all that bad. Hour three flushed it all down the toilet. It's sad, really. There are times in the first two hours where the hodgepodge of post-apocalyptic and western images mix crazily with a symbolic respect for the often dissed postal employee. Very environmentally friendly, very post Civil War.
People ride horses and no one has electricity anymore.
This group terrorizes the country, taking what they want and conscripting healthy white males to stock their ranks. This conscription includes the drifter and his mule which sets up the conflict that plays out over the next couple of hours. Escaping the Holnists, the drifter finds a uniform and a sack of mail and figures that he can use the find to get food and shelter as he reverts to his drifting ways. So far so good. The Postman moves across the West, from the Salt Flats in Utah, to the mountains of Oregon.