The Post explores today the electronic etiquette of the BlackBerry, the popular wireless email device. Although it was news to us, the Post assures us they’re “sometimes referred to as CrackBerrys among addicted adherents.” (Mmmm … CrackBerry)

The sprawling 3-page (online) feature titled “No Escape From E-Mail” predicts etiquette predicaments to proliferate as the price of the gadgets decline and their use becomes more widespread. Overall, though, it seems the little devices are winning out: the story discusses a man checking a BlackBerry at the airport while leaving on a vacation with his girlfriend, and otherwise respectable lawyer types waving them around madly at a meeting trying to get service.

We were surprised when they quoted a “technology etiquette consultant” for Sprint who astutely observes of people are emailing in a meeting, “Their eyes are not on you. That means they’re disinterested. That’s when you start to feel edgy.” Our Sprint bills also make us feel edgy.

Finally, in a statement that contains some sort of postmodern zen, the attorney that the Post found who had checked email before a romantic escape pondered “Does the BlackBerry make someone more neurotic, or does a neurotic person find that the BlackBerry comforts them?” Just as soon as our expense accounts allow it, we here at DCist will get one and get right back to you.