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Goalpost- The Benson and Kempai officer of the story. He formerly worked at the Pony Express Mail Delivery, and his short temper due to foul ups by ponies such as Derpy Hooves made him infamous, bursting into rage and coming close to firing those who couldn't make the correct deliveries. However, he never did fire anypony. When he isn't ticked off, he often pays higher salaries than most ponies and brings his team to go have lunch or dinner, of which he is paying for. ANd generally, he is a nice pony to talk to. However, one day, he had no ponyelse but Derpy to send a delivery to Princess Celestia. She screws up and the day after, when he reads the newspaper, the Party that required the cake never made it to Celestia and Derpy accidentally said it was Goalpost who sent it (believing nothing bad would happen in the interview... DITZY), making him sound responsible for sending someone clumsy for something important. He becomes furious when she arrives at that moment and bursts into a rage, calling Derpy:

"YOU'RE SO CLUMSY AND FORGETFUL THAT YOU DRIVE ME NUTS!!!! CAN'T YOU JUST LISTEN TO ME ONCE IN YOUR WORTHLESS LIFE?!?! 'CAUSE IF YOU DID, YOU'D SEE THAT I'VE BEEN TRYING TO TEACH YOU SOME SIMPLE RESPONSIBILITY, SOME PRIDE IN DOING A JOB WELL DONE!!!! BUT YOU WOULDN'T KNOW A JOB WELL DONE IF YOU PAID SOMEONE TO DO IT FOR YOU, AND EVEN THEN YOU'D SCREW IT ALL UP ON THE ACCOUNT THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN FOLLOW THE SIMPLIEST OF INSTRUCTIONS, WORRYING MORE ABOUT MUFFINS THAN DOING YOUR JOB!!!!"

Unfortunately, Princess Celestia was present there who came through the entrance to the post office (Derpy through the back). Princess Celestia sees Derpy cry and regrettably, she had to ask for him to leave his job.

His life then went downhill, he lost his apartment due to high costs and no revenue to pay back, every pony on the streets hate him for his screw up sending Derpy on a super important delivery (even though they don't know that Derpy was the only one who was available) and raging on poor Derpy. Derpy tries finding Goalpost but fails to in the streets and apartment. However, she eventually sees him walk out of a recruitment center. Derpy tells him she's sorry and that she'll try to convince Celestia to let him take back the job and fix everything. But Goalpost tells her not to bother. He already will be shipping off tomorrow, possibly training new recruits.

"All I'll ever be good at is shouting... and making other ponies feel sad," Goalpost paused for a bit, trying to find the courage to say it, "and useless."

...

Goalpost then sighed, opening his eyes.

"...Good bye Derpy."

He starts walking off, Derpy about to burst into tears.

She begins looking left to right, biting her lower lip and putting a hoof against her chin, trying to find something to stop him.

"Umm, uhh... how bout I bake you a muffin, and we can eat a muffin I'll bake..." she sees how far he is already, losing hope, "...together."

During the war, when he is injured , he is sent to a hospital in a city where Derpy coincidentally bumps into him while delivering mail to the hospital. He is allowed to go have lunch, which Derpy says is an overdue one and that it was for getting him kicked out. She then gives another gift, one from her heart. A muffin and she says it was made especially for him and that she had feelings for him. Over the next few days, the two get to know each other better but he has to be sent back to the frontlines soon. He says he can't promise he'll be back but he will yell out her name if he goes down so everypony would know that he loves her.

It is revealed to either Derpy (during the war) or the CMC that the origins of him yelling was that he never got anypony's attention as a filly, overshadowed by classmates and even by his siblings. He also says why he is short tempered, being constantly blamed for everything (team mates fail to do the work, he's blamed by the teacher or etc.) made him have a short fuse.