Who is Newman and why does Jerry hate him?
Newman is a USPS employee who lives in Jerry’s building. We do not know. Newman’s first name. His business card simply shows “Newman”. There has been some debate over the question of Newman’s first name ever since his first appearance on 11/27/91 in “the Stranded”. The bottom line is this. Newman’s first name has never been revealed. Or, if Newman is his first name, then his last name has never been revealed. At the center of the controversy was a scene at the end of “the Bottle Deposit” when a farmgirl yells out to a fleeing Newman, “Goodbye Norman (See 6.1). Newman and Jerry are antagonists, but whatever cause the rift between them happened before the show began. They have disliked each other from the start. Newman a friend of Kramer.
