History Main / UnstoppableMailman

-->'''Binky:''' Neither rain nor sleet -- or cat with bad disposition -- will keep this clown from completing his rounds!

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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} is trying to get some sleep, but is continually harassed by Binky the Clown, who's running a birthday greeting service and thinks Garfield's house is the home of one Edna Fogerty, to wish her a 97-seventh birthday. Since Garfield can't tell Binky he's at the wrong house, all he can do is keep throwing the clown out. Eventually, Garfield hits upon a solution -- he dresses up as an old lady and lets Binky ''think'' he's made his delivery. Alls well that ends well, right? Nope! Turns out it's also Garfield's birthday, and Jon hired Binky! Cue the tubby tabby fleeing into a desert, only to find Binky waiting for him atop the mesa he climbs.

*** [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] by the Mojave Express, as a matter of fact. They have a policy of sending hit squads after couriers who don't complete their assignments (presumably, this discourages vagabond thieves from signing up for jobs and simply absconding with their packages). Mailmen in the Mojave ''have'' to be unstoppable, ''or else.''

** [=FedEx=] manager [[Creator/TomHanks Chuck Noland]] leaves one of the packages that wash up on the island with him unopened. After five years, he escapes the island and delivers the package. He also kept track of the addressees for the packages he opened and buys replacements for many of the items he used, which he is delivering to their intended recipients at the end. [=FedEx=] and the film's writers were not above some Main/SelfDeprecation by saying (and making an ad showing) that the answer to the RiddleForTheAges that is the contents of the unopened package were [[GaveUpTooSoon a satellite phone that would have gotten Chuck saved instantly]][[note]]in the script they were instead a couple of bottles of hot sauce[[/note]].

** [=FedEx=] manager [[Creator/TomHanks Chuck Noland]] leaves one of the packages that wash up on the island with him unopened. After five years, he escapes the island and delivers the package. He also kept track of the addressees for the packages he opened and buys replacements for many of the items he used, which he is delivering to their intended recipients at the end. [=FedEx=] and the film's writers were not above some Main/SelfDepreciation by saying (and making an ad showing) that the answer to the RiddleForTheAges that is the contents of the unopened package were [[GaveUpTooSoon a satellite phone that would have gotten Chuck saved instantly]][[note]]in the script they were instead a couple of bottles of hot sauce[[/note]].

** [=FedEx=] manager [[Creator/TomHanks Chuck Noland]] leaves one of the packages that wash up on the island with him unopened. After five years, he escapes the island and delivers the package. He also kept track of the addressees for the packages he opened and buys replacements for many of the items he used, which he is delivering to their intended recipients at the end. [=FedEx=] and the film's writers were not above some SelfDepreciation by saying (and making an ad showing) that the answer to the RiddleForTheAges that is the contents of the unopened package were [[GaveUpTooSoon a satellite phone that would have gotten Chuck saved instantly]][[note]]in the script they were instead a couple of bottles of hot sauce[[/note]].

** [=FedEx=] manager [[Creator/TomHanks Chuck Noland]] leaves one of the packages that wash up on the island with him unopened. After five years, he escapes the island and delivers the package. He also kept track of the addressees for the packages he opened and buys replacements for many of the items he used, which he is delivering to their intended recipients at the end.

** In the Creator/CarlBarks comic story "The Persistent Postman," Franchise/DonaldDuck is a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin persistent postman]] who delivers the mail on a nearly impossible route. He buys a helicopter to try and make the route go faster and gets into a fight with a giant eagle who steals his sack of mail, but in the end still manages to deliver everything.

* Not exactly a mailman, the pizza delivery guy from ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' definitely counts. If you order a Pizza, he will deliver it within 3 minutes, even if you are in an area heavily filled with monsters.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"I'll deliver these letters if I have to '''scuba-dive''' down to the damn mailbox!"]]

* In one ''Webomic/ElGoonishShive'' Q&A comic, a mostly unseen courier is able to deliver [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2016-06-03 an appropriately-sized message]] to a shrunken Amanda and Lisa at exactly the instant it is needed, and then vanishes into the ether.

* The [[PonyExpressRider Pony Express]] (as noted on the BrieferThanTheyThink page, it only lasted a year and a half, but during that time it was vitally important). Its only rider who was killed by attackers in the line of duty, Billy Tate (taking out seven of his twelve assailants in a LastStand...when he had twelve bullets, even), had the honor of delivering his package even in death since his horse went to the station without him.

* ''Film/CastAway'': [=FedEx=] manager Tom Hanks leaves one of the packages that wash up on the island with him unopened. After five years, he escapes the island and delivers the package. He also kept track of the addressees for the packages he opened and buys replacements for many of the items he used, which he is delivering to their intended recipients at the end.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Klaus'' (2019), the Royal Postal Academy of an unnamed Scandinavian country is a pseudo-military boot camp; it's worst recruit, the Postmaster General's lazy son Jesper, is [[ReassignedToAntarctica exiled]] to the remote whaling town of Smeerensburg to establish a working post office and meet an annual quota of 6,000 letters. The only way for him to generate mail traffic is to deliver presents to children made by the local woodsman. Since the whole town is divided between two FeudingFamilies, every home is an armed fortress. Jesper has to go to absurd lengths to deliver the presents, including dropping down their chimneys, avoiding booby traps, and slipping past guard dogs.