It was founded in 1996 by Vince Desi through a business decision of Riedel Software Productions, a maker of child-friendly games.

Running with Scissors (RWS) was founded by Vincent James Desiderio Jr., a native of Brooklyn with Italian roots.

[1][2] Early in his life, he picked up a high-school teaching career before quitting a semester later and working several different jobs, including taxi driver and manager of a recording studio.

[1] Eventually, while seeking to hire workers in the computer industry, Desi became involved with and later a consultant for the video game company Atari.

[1][2] Because Desi had no knowledge of programming and little interest in video games, he handled business affairs for the company, while Riedel was in charge of creative operations.

[1][2] Inspired by the game Robotron: 2084, which had been playable at the RSP offices, RWS began work on Postal.

[1][2] In its first week, Postal was sold over 10,000 times in the United States, and sales in Europe (where the game was released by Take-Two Interactive) were expected to reach 100,000.

[1] RWS followed up with Special Delivery, an add-on of four levels released in August 1998 that allowed the player to murder lawyers, homeless people, and American Red Cross workers, among others.

The company attempted to make its humor more evident than it was in the original game so it would reach a wider audience.

[14][15] During Postal 2's development, RWS got in contact with Uwe Boll, a director of video game-based films like House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, and BloodRayne.

The resulting film was shot in the Vancouver area, with Desi playing himself as well as Krotchy, an anthropomorphic scrotum from the Postal universe.

[2] RWS' next game was Postal III; the company struck a deal with Russian publisher Akella that saw RWS create the script, music, design and character development for the game, which was then moved to Akella's in-house developers, Trashmasters, for programming and art production.

Postal III was released in December 2011 to very bad reception, leading RWS to pull it from its online store the following year.