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The authorities said a woman, who had left her Postal Service job because of psychological problems, shot and killed five former colleagues and critically wounded another at a sorting plant here Monday night before fatally shooting herself. Sheriff Anderson and Postal Service officials provided only sketchy information on the woman's background and the circumstances of her previous confrontation with employees and departure from the job. James Califano, the chairman of a Postal Service commission studying the violence, said that this report should shatter the myth that postal workers were more violent than other worker. Jennifer Sanmarco, was that woman, who is 44, and from Grants, N.M., a former employee of the Santa Barbara Processing and Distribution Center, confronted employees with a 9-millimeter handgun, the authorities said. The authorities had not ideas if she was selecting the victims, all women except one, or shooting at random in what was one of the deadliest rampages at a Postal Service building. Sheriff Anderson and Postal Service officials provided only sketchy information on the woman's background and the circumstances of her previous confrontation with employees and departure from the job.