Gmail becomes Googlemail in the UK, and I think other countries as well. Here is a story about it.
http://tinyurl.com/pkrhf
I think it sucks, unfortunately.
I like my email address, you had no right to make such a change. I'm darn upset.
******************
Dear Google Account holder:
We have received a request to add the Google Mail service to your
Google Account.
In order to use Google Mail, your username had been changed from:
me@mydomain.com
to:
googles-version-of-me@googlemail.com
If you did not initiate this request, please email whereever@googlesdomain.com.
Thank you for using Google

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