History Main / FlyingPostman

* ''VideoGame/PaperMario'': The postal service is run by Paratroopas, the franchise's most common {{Airborne Mook}}s. You can get one of them as your partner in the first game.

* ''The Secret of the Ninth Planet'', by Donald Allen Wollheim. While on an expedition in the Andes mountains, the protagonists receive a special delivery by missile post. The missile, radio-guided from a Moon base, flies overhead and detaches its message-carrying nosecone which then floats down to them by parachute.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', newspapers are delivered by trained seagulls all over the world, due to the huge amount of oceans and islands. Furthermore, we later see that the Revolutionary Army seems to use large crows to deliver messages, and the World Government has been seen sending messenger bats to people.
* In ''Aqua/Manga/{{Aria}}'', Woody is an airbike courier. This series also has the land-based, or should we say canal-based Mr Mailman as well.
* ''Anime/LastExile'' Claus and Lavie are vanship pilots and work as couriers.
* The ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'' fantasy spin-off ''Anime/YohaneTheParhelionSunshineInTheMirror'' portrays You Watanabe as an air messenger who glides across the land for deliveries after being shot out of a canon.

* In one ''ComicBook/DonaldDuck'' comic by Creator/CarlBarks, Donald works as a postman in a rather extreme enviroment, with extremely muddy roads, people living on mountainsides, and one house located ''on the underside of a cliff''. He eventually buys a mini-helicopter to lighten the load, but things go wrong when an eagle attacks him to get at a package of meat he's transporting.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal:
** The Air Mail has largely been a monopoly of Klatch and its (now) civilian-orientated force of magic carpets -- which now offer an unparalleled passenger and airmail service linking the major cities of the entire Disc. It has not been lost on Lord Vetinari that the Klatchians made a kind offer to ferry the diplomatic bags of Embassies to and from their home capitals -- for a modest fee and a promise the diplomatic secrets will not be intercepted or tampered with while in transit.
** Vetinari's riposte was to offer the growing [[{{Pegasus}} Pegasus Service]] as Ankh-Morpork's airmail equivalent. This is working. However, the Ankh-Morpork Post Office absolutely ''insists'' that if the Pegasus Service pilots, all Air Witches, are to be used to deliver mail, then they ''must'' also pass the ordeal known as The Postman's Walk. Hilarity ensues.

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* In ''Cold Copper Tears'' of the ''Literature/GarrettPI'' series, a description of the multi-species crowd in a [=TunFaire=] neighborhood includes a mention of a winged pixie messenger.

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', maesters use ravens to deliver messages back and forth. In particular, the Wall will send a white raven south to signify the beginning of [[EndlessWinter winter]] - [[spoiler:this occurs at the end of ''Literature/ADanceWithDragons'']].
* A short story by Creator/RudyardKipling, ''[[http://wondersmith.com/scifi/mail.htm With the Night Mail]]'', chronicles the adventures of a transatlantic mail airship.
* ''The Secret of the Ninth Planet'', by Donald Allen Wollheim. While on an expedition in the Andes mountains, the protagonists receive a special delivery by missile post. The missile, radio-guided from a Moon base, flies overhead and detaches its message-carrying nosecone which then floats down to them by parachute.
* ''Rocket Ship Galileo'' by Creator/RobertAHeinlein. The RetroRocket the protagonists modify for a TripToTheMoonPlot was previously used for carrying international mail.
* In Creator/AnneMccaffrey's ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' books, fire-lizards deliver messages, although unless the distance is very short, they teleport rather than 'flying straight'. When not fighting thread, dragonriders deliver messages, cargo, and/or passengers as necessary.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has a non-flying example. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E7Kerblam Kerblam!]] use teleporting delivery robots to drop off their parcels. One teleports inside the TARDIS to deliver the Doctor a fez. And a DistressCall [[HelpHelpTrappedInTitleFactory printed on the packing slip]] that sets off the plot.

* ''VideoGame/PaperMario'': The postal service is run by Paratroopas, the franchise's most common {{Airborne Mook}}s. You can get one of them as your partner in the first game.

* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': Pete the pelican delivers the mail from the Post Office, which is also run by pelicans. In ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingWildWorld Wild World]]'', he can be seen and even [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential shot down]] mid-flight. While none of the pelicans appears in ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons New Horizons]]'', postcards can instead be air-mailed to other players through the airport, run by [[DoofyDodo dodos]].
* ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'': A pelican is responsible for mail delivery, and figures into several sidequests.

* The ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'' fantasy spin-off ''Yohane of the Parhelion - Unpolarized Reflexion'' portrays You Watanabe as an air messenger who glides across the land for deliveries after being shot out of a canon.