1 | An index dealing with postal services and the delivery of goods and communiques. |
2 | |
3 | Not to be confused with: {{Blackmail}} |
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5 | !!Tropes: |
6 | [[index]] |
7 | * AcquaintedInRealLife: Two online friends know each other in real life, but don't know that. |
8 | * {{Arrowgram}}: Sending someone a letter by shooting an arrow near them with the letter attached to the arrow. |
9 | * BagsOfLetters: Huge bags of letters means everyone has a ''lot'' to say about you. |
10 | * BloodStainedLetter: A letter with a blood splatter means something bad's gonna happen. |
11 | * ChainLetter: Forward this letter to other people or you'll get bad luck! |
12 | * {{Courier}}: Mercantile message/cargo delivery person. |
13 | * DeadlyDelivery: A killer disguises themselves as a courier, mailman, or delivery man to get close to their target. |
14 | * DearJohnLetter: Ending a relationship via mail. |
15 | * DeliveryNotDesired: An emotional message that ends up unsent. |
16 | * DeliveryStork: The stork delivers babies to their parents. |
17 | * EpilogueLetter: Someone reading a letter is used to end the story. |
18 | * EpistolaryNovel: A story told entirely through an exchange of letters. |
19 | * FingerInTheMail: You torment the loved ones of a person you've kidnapped or killed by mailing them the person's dismembered body parts. |
20 | * FlyingPostman: Postal messengers travel by flight. |
21 | * ForgedMessage: Writing a message under someone else's name. |
22 | * FourthWallMailSlot: Fictional characters respond to real-life fan mail. |
23 | * GoingPostal: Postal workers go crazy. |
24 | * HumanMail: Sending yourself (or someone else) in the mail. |
25 | * INeverGotAnyLetters: You sent messages, but someone else intercepted before they could reach the recipent. |
26 | * InstantHomeDelivery: Place an order and it arrives unrealistically fast. |
27 | * InstantMessengerPigeon: Birds are really fast at delivering messages. |
28 | * IrrevocableMessage: Send an angry message and immediately regret it? You can't get it back. |
29 | * LettersToTheEditor: The editor of the magazine responds to submitted mail. |
30 | * LockerMail: Mail is delivered to someone's locker, usually in a school setting. |
31 | * LoveLetter: Confess your love through writing a letter. |
32 | * LoveLetterLunacy: ...and ridiculous stuff happens. |
33 | * MailmanVsDog: Dogs and postal workers are natural enemies. |
34 | * MailOrderBride: Someone has a spouse delivered to them through mail order. |
35 | * MailOrderNovelty: A tchotchke advertised in a magazine or comic book, which (usually) just ends up being utterly useless. |
36 | * MessageInABottle: Someone stranded on an island tries to summon help by writing a message and putting it in a bottle that is subsequently cast out to sea. |
37 | * MistakenMessage: The letter you just got isn't written by who you assume it was. |
38 | * NeverSentAnyLetters: You got messages "from" someone, but they weren't written ''by'' them. |
39 | * ObsessiveLoveLetter: A love letter that comes off as incredibly creepy. |
40 | * PelicanPackagePouch: Send or receive messages using a pelican's mouth. |
41 | * PenPals: Friends who only communicate by mailing letters to each other. |
42 | * ProductDeliveryOrdeal: When the process of carrying or transporting the package is a challenge on its own. |
43 | * ReadingTheEnemysMail: Read your enemy's mail to learn their secrets and get the upper hand. |
44 | * SignedWithAKiss: A letter, envelope, or package has a kiss mark either in addition to or in place of a name signature. |
45 | * SnailMail: In the digital age, more traditional postal services are seen as ''insanely'' slow. |
46 | * StronglyWordedLetter: Write a disapproving letter as a pathetic attempt to voice your complaints about something evil. |
47 | * UnintentionalFinalMessage: A living character receives a message that a dead character composed before they knew they were about to die |
48 | * UnseenPenPal: Someone you communicate with over text isn't who you think. |
49 | * UnstoppableMailman: The mailman won't let anything keep him from delivering the mail. |
50 | * VoiceoverLetter: When someone reads a letter, we hear the letter being read by whoever wrote it. |
51 | * YouGotMurder: Sending an explosive device as a mail package to kill the recipient. |
52 | [[/index]] |
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