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13	[[caption-width-right:345:The [[{{Pun}} William Tell]]egram, the first stepping stone of telecommunications.]]
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15	->''"Message for you, sir!"''
16	-->-- '''Concorde''' (Lancelot's servant, [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction after getting hit by an arrowgram]]), ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''
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18	You're on one side of a medieval or fantasy battle or castle siege, and you want to deliver a message to someone on the opposing side. How to do it? Write your note on a scrap of paper, tie it to an arrow shaft, and have a friendly archer send it on its way. Bonus points if you hit an enemy mook on the receiving end or it's caught barehanded by the recipient.
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20	If the note is wrapped around a brick or rock instead, and then tossed through a convenient window, it's BrokenWindowWarning.
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23	!!Examples:
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27	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
28	* Persia and Inuzuka often use arrows to send messages to each other in ''Manga/BoardingSchoolJuliet''.
29	* The main method of communicating with Mashiro and Hakuya while they're living with Kobeni and Benio in ''Manga/EngagedToTheUnidentified''.
30	* This is how [[spoiler: Tsukikage]], TheMole, sends a message to the Ogame School in ''Manga/{{Gamaran}}'' while they're sneaking inside the city of Unabara, looking for a way to enter the inner city.
31	* Episode 14 of the ''Anime/LittleLulu'' anime, but with a toy arrow.
32	* One chapter of ''Manga/LupinIII'' - loosely adapted into Episode 9 of [[Anime/LupinIIIPart1 the first anime]] - had Lupin doing this with a giant TreeBuchet, the arrows being bamboo shafts almost as tall as a grown man. He uses these to not only deliver communications (via a walkie-talkie), but [[ItMakesSenseInContext a medical kit for Fujiko]]. Befitting the DarkerAndEdgier nature of the manga, the last of these shafts is shot [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice straight into]] [[InTheBack a mook's back]].
33	* ''Manga/NagasareteAirantou'': Occasionally done by Machi or the ninjas. Also Michiru has the ability to control her arrows flight. So Obaba uses her to send messages to the entire village multiple arrows at a time.
34	* In ''Manga/NewGame'' Tsubame "Naru" Narumi's father communicates with other cast members by firing arrows from off-panel. When Naru has an argument with her mother about pursuing a career in the gaming industry rather than inheriting the inn, her father tries to speak up by shooting an arrow, but Naru's mother breaks the arrow. Naru ultimately resolves the issue by sending a short but heartfelt message to her mother via an arrow through the latter's window, and actually manages to get through to her mother(who assumes it's from her husband until she accidentally rads it).
35	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
36	** One episode has Ranma deliver a note to [[WholesomeCrossdresser Tsubasa]] in this manner to ask him on a date, [[spoiler:unaware that [[UnsettlingGenderReveal Tsubasa is a boy]]]]!
37	** And, in the Waterproof Soap episode, Shampoo also sends a forged letter [[spoiler:from "Akane"]] to Ryōga in the same fashion.
38	** Arrowgrams are in fact rather frequent to send a challenge to a rival. And it should be noted that, since all martial artists have a DangerSense and good reflexes, those arrows are generally aimed ''at their heads'', fully expecting an ArrowCatch every time (though in one case, Akane is targeted with one that has a suction-cup for a head).
39	* In ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', the [[ButtMonkey Hiruma Brothers]] are tasked with sending such a message to Higashidani [[spoiler: (Sanosuke's true father)]]. The old man casually grabs it before it can even hit him, read the message and casually throws it away, hitting the older brother squarely in the ass.
40	* In an early chapter of ''Manga/SchoolRumble'', Tenma tries to deliver a love letter to her would-be boyfriend, Karasuma, this way. (They are living in modern-day Tokyo.) She keeps peppering him with arrows while he dodges without even noticing, and he never even spots the letters.
41	* Shirayuki gets a message via arrow in ''Manga/SnowWhiteWithTheRedHair'', warning her to turn back. She is undeterred.
42	* In ''Anime/TanteiOperaMilkyHolmes'', GentlemanThief Stone River shoots an arrow with a note into Milky Holmeses room. But since the titular heroines are about as dumb as a bag of rocks, they don't even notice it. When they eventually see the fourth of fifth arrow, the proceed to read the vertically written note horizontally and have no idea what it's supposed to be. So Stone River shoots yet another arrow with a small tape player attached to it, reading the message out loud.
43	* In ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'', the Spiderman tries to send Kojiro's challenge to Yaiba with arrows. However, Yaiba thinks they're part of the training he's doing so he ignores them or deflects them.
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46	[[folder:Audio Plays]]
47	* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': In ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho099SonOfTheDragon Son of the Dragon]]'', the Doctor sends a warning to Vlad by tying a piece of parchment to an arrow and firing it through the window of the tower room at Castle Dracula. His shot is so accurate that the arrow snuffs the candle flame he was aiming at.
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50	[[folder:Comic Books]]
51	* When ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} set up a mercenary company and named it "Heroes for Hire", Hawkeye shot him with an arrowgram that proved to be a summons informing him that he was being sued by ComicBook/LukeCage.
52	* Used in ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' stories featuring Indians; one time the sheriff finds out when he [[AmusingInjuries takes the arrow in the rear]].
53	* In ''ComicBook/MasterOfKungFu'', Shang-Chi gets one of these wrapped around a thrown dagger's hilt. It deliberately misses, but is immediately followed by a murder attempt. Once the assassins are defeated -- and have killed themselves via CyanidePill -- Shang-Chi reads the note. [[ArchnemesisDad His father]] wishes him a happy birthday.
54	* In ''ComicBook/RobynHood'', Robyn uses this to send a note to a young girl she has taken an interest in, telling her to meet her at the library.
55	* In ''The Big Fat Kill'' from ''ComicBook/SinCity'', Miho delivers a note to Manute and his crew this way: firing the arrow ''through'' Stuka's chest.
56	* The Grey Smurfs sent arrowgrams to the Smurfs prior to attacking them, hoping that they would surrender, in ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' comic book story "The Smurf Threat".
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59	[[folder:Fan Works]]
60	* ''Fanfic/TheMountainAndTheWolf'': The Wolf uses his best archer Akkarulf ([[spoiler:Theon Greyjoy]]) to send messages on arrows.
61	** At the Chaos Dwarf fortress of Dronangkul, he proposes a trade: dragonglass weapons, Nehekharan undead to test them on, and Dark Elf slaves for a daemonsmith capable of [[spoiler:making Jaime's golden hand move again]].
62	** During the siege of Harrenhal, he sends a request for negotiations to the Westerosi camp outside (and a reminder that he can reach them anytime he wants).
63	* ''Fanfic/TheVow'': After Lady Lianne is imprisoned in [[GildedCage the Tower of the Sacred Flame]], she receives an arrow shot by her spy network into her room during nighttime, and with it a message informing that [[BringNewsBack Lang]] is safely nearing the Valley of Peace with her plea for help and that an undercover will arrive to assist her.
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66	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
67	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' movie ''Bender's Game Part IV'' (or S05E08), a chain of Centaurs deliver a message by arrows, although instead of tying a paper to the arrow, they aim for a prepared target with the correct message. They have targets for flood, fire, economic downturn, celebrity breakup and war.
68	* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'': An arrowgram from the Eastern province reporting that another Kung Fu Master has gone missing flies towards the Jade Palace only to be [[ArrowCatch snatched in mid-air by Monkey.]] We then see Master Shifu surrounded by similar arrowgrams [[EverybodysDeadDave from all over China]].
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71	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
72	* Used in the second ''Franchise/{{Asterix}}'' movie, ''Film/AsterixAndObelixMissionCleopatra'', [[MundaneUtility to get a message to the architect on a construction site]].
73	* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'': {{Discussed\|Trope}}; after their escape from the guards, Holga suggests shooting an arrow with a message into Kira's room to explain that Forge had been lying to her about her dad. Edgin shoots down the suggestion, though, not wanting to risk wounding Kira with an arrow.
74	* ''Film/{{Justice\|League 2017}} [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague League]]'': Following Steppenwolf's rampage on Themyscira and him getting away with the Mother Box that the Amazons were guarding, Queen Hippolyta shoots an arrow on fire (with no message attached to it) for [[Franchise/WonderWoman Diana/Wonder Woman]] to find and it lands in a Greek temple. Diana instantly knows what it means -- that a new invasion by the New Gods is coming. She sees the arrow on fire in the temple from a TV news broadcast in the theatrical cut, and she goes on to said temple's [[AncientTomb crypt]] in the Creator/ZackSnyder version to find out what the message means (the arrow allows her to open the crypt's secret stone door).
75	* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SwNXQMoNps Concorde receives a note for Lancelot]] by getting an arrow to the chest. Concorde doesn't appear [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction very upset]] about the whole thing, but Lancelot, being the LargeHam that he is, starts giving Concorde a farewell speech -- and Concorde reveals that he's NotQuiteDead and quickly recovers.
76	* In ''Film/RoguesOfSherwoodForest'', Robin's sends Marianne a message telling her to pretend to obey the king's will but insist on being married to Flanders at St. Dunstan's Abbey by tying it to an arrow and firing it through the window of her bedchamber and into her door.
77	* This happens twice with a flaming arrow in the Sentai parody ''Film/RollingBomberSpecial''.
78	* ''Film/SinCity'': Pulling directly from the comic, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Aor4GUdjI Miho delivers Dwight's note to Manute.]]
79	* In ''Film/SmallSoldiers'', the Commando Elite send Alan and the Gorgonites an arrow with a ''video tape'' of Christy telling Alan to surrender the Gorgonites or else the Commando Elite will kill her.
80	* ''Film/TerryAndThePirates'': In the first episode, Pat leans down and thus is narrowly missed by an arrow which thuds into a tree. Attached to the arrow is the message "Warning, go back on first steamer or you'll be killed."
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83	[[folder:Literature]]
84	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In ''Literature/MakingMoney'', Moist von Lipwig learns that, as a condition of the late Topsy Lavish's will, Topsy has left him [[PetHeir her dog Mr. Fusspot, who is now technically the chairman of the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork]]. He also finds that a contract will be put on his head if anything happens to Mr. Fusspot. He then gets a "warning shot" when he's nearly hit by a black arrow with impeccable italic enameling in white down the side: ''The Guild of Assassins. Where style counts.''
85	* ''Literature/DocSavage'': In the opening chapters of ''Land of Long Juju'', a threat is tied to the shaft of a spear and hurled into Renny's tent.
86	* ''Literature/FengshenYanyi'': when the heroes are finally besieging Zhaoge, Jiang Ziya, unwilling to harm citizens with a violent siege or use of taoist magic, simply writes down hundreds of messages inviting the population to surrender peacefully to Xiqi and has them shot behind enemy walls with arrows. Tired of the abuses of the wicked King Zhou, the citizens and soldiers of the capital are more than happy to rebel and open the gates.
87	* ''Literature/TheForestOfHandsAndTeeth'' has two sets of characters living in treehouses for a brief period of time, unable to go to the ground or hear each other over the din of the zombies. The only means of communication is by arrow and letter (and given one of the communicating character's poor aim, this isn't so easy).
88	* In ''Literature/{{Ivanhoe}}'', Myth/RobinHood's merry men use a relay of bowmen to transfer messages.
89	* At the beginning of the Literature/LordDarcy novel ''A Study in Sorcery'' by Michael Kurland, a company of English soldiers are escorting a group of Native Americans through the lands of another tribe with whom they have a bad history. The chief of the local tribe sends a message arrow into the tent of the head soldier, warning him that they plan to attack and giving him a chance to withdraw his men. (History being somewhat different in this series, the message is written in formal English on mass-produced notepaper with a printed letterhead.)
90	* The Literature/ModestyBlaise novel ''I, Lucifer'' has a variation where instead of an arrow, Willie Garvin wraps a message around one of his throwing knives to get it to an ally in a guarded compound.
91	* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': Occurs in ''The Bellmaker'' in order to get a message to some of the heroes when they're trapped inside a castle. In a slightly more realistic spin on the trope, it takes the archer three tries to hit the right window, and the heroes prop a table up in front of it to avoid anyone getting hit by the arrow.
92	* ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'': As Cao Cao besieged a flooded Xiapi, he had a number of messages shot over the wall, promising a reward for the capture of Lu Bu, though Lu Bu's officers were already disillusioned with him by then and were in collusion with Cao Cao to take the city.
93	* ''Literature/SplitHeirs'': Artemisia sends all her messages to Prince Mimulus, her brother (aka the Black Weasel) on foot. His responses always come in this fashion, shot into the palace via arrow.
94	* In ''Literature/TroyRising'' at one point negotiations are conducted by sending disarmed missiles through the PortalNetwork. It's noted that the humans (at least) are using obsolete missiles for this purpose to avoid the aliens being able to figure out the exact performance capabilities of their newer missiles.
95	* In ''Literature/RangersApprentice'' book 6 - The Siege of Macindaw, Will shoots an arrow with a message to a locked tower, where his friend Alyss is imprisoned to tell her about the plan of escape.
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98	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
99	* A 1950s episode of ''Series/{{The Adventures of Robin Hood}}'' in which Robin (Richard Greene) sends a message via a ''flaming'' arrow. When someone asks, in lieu of the audience, if the message won't get burned up too, he replies that it'll slide to the back of the shaft in flight.
100	* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' had some variations on the trope.
101	** In "Betrayal", Oliver Queen fires one of his electronic bugging arrows into the house of an organized crime boss, but he finds it and, after kidnapping Laurel Lance, leaves the arrow stuck in the wall of her apartment with a [[IHaveYourWife recorded message for the Arrow]].
102	** In "Draw Back Your Bow", an obsessed fan of the Arrow is going around shooting heart-shaped arrows into criminals. While examining one of the arrowheads, Oliver finds a message for him inside.
103	* ''Series/{{The Avengers\|1960s}}'': One of the ways John Steed delivers his "Mrs. Peel, we're needed!" message to Emma Peel at the start of every episode in the show's colored seasons.
104	* ''Series/FortBoyard'': Rouge announces the start of her challenges in the Cage by shooting a flaming arrow into the door of the next would-be contest, with a defiant message wrapped around it.
105	* In the "iMeet Fred" episode of ''Series/ICarly'', the archery club informs Freddy that his is out of the club this way.
106	* ''Series/{{Kung Fu\|1972}}'': "Besieged Part Two: Cannon at the Gate." TheMole communicates with the besiegers via flaming arrow - the flame is so they can see where the arrow is headed and go pick it up after it lands.
107	* ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert'': In the sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEKinNoUMas "Stephen Colbert Is 'Darrylgorn' in the Next Installment of the 'Lord of the Rings' Saga"]], the hero receives an arrowgram in the Shire.
108	-->'''Darrylgorn:''' Oh, a text for me! ... Oh, no biggie. Just a message from my best Gandalf asking me to save Middle-earth... again.
109	* ''Series/ThreeKingdoms'': As in the [[Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms novel]], Cao Cao had archers shoot messages over the wall of Xiapi promising a reward for the capture of Lu Bu. In the show, this indirectly results in his men rebelling as a result of the punishment he administered, hearing them read the notes and suspecting they would betray him.
110	* In the ''Series/WayneAndShuster'' parody of ''Series/{{Kung Fu\|1972}}'', a throwing knife with a note attached [[TwangHello buries itself in the wall next to the railroad president's head]].
111	* The Count does this in ''Series/YoungDracula'', tying a note proclaiming a blood feud to a flaming arrow and shooting it at the Branaghs. However, the burn damage the note sustains causes half the message to be unreadable and Graham Branagh thinks it's a note asking him to examine Dracula's drains.
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114	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
115	* Sidereals in ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' have a charm that lets them explicitly shoot messages (among other things).
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118	[[folder:Video Games]]
119	* ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'': Artemia Venus sends a message to Edea Lee (off-screen) this way, asking the renegade to meet with her sister Einheria. Edea gets upset because she apparently aimed for the face.
120	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': Inspector Hildibrand receives challenges from a mysterious thief as thrown cards that end up embedded in his forehead (as seen [[https://youtu.be/IVZBGdjqGYY?t=555 here]]). Since Hildibrand is MadeOfIron, he barely notices and there's no lasting damage.
121	* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' shares TropeNamer credit, with [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Arrowgram an arrow item that can be used to send notes to other players.]]
122	* Called "Arrowgram" in ''VideoGame/OnimushaDawnOfDreams''. Specifically, [[AxCrazy Munenori]] shot 500 of these messages to mount Hiei (where Soki was resting after being defeated by Hideyoshi). TropeNamer
123	* In ''VideoGame/{{Shinobido}}'' you receive your mail with arrows at the end of each "day"/Mission.
124	* ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTournamentFighters'': The SNES version starts off its Story mode with one of these being fired into the Turtles' home, said arrow actually sticking into the brick wall.
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127	[[folder:Web Animation]]
128	* In the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' animation "A Folky Tale", Saddy Dumpington gets a message via arrow from the townsfolk, who have been laughing uncontrollably ever since he left and need him to come back and make them sad again.
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131	[[folder:Webcomics]]
132	* In ''Webcomic/{{Adventurers}}'', [[QuirkyBard Gildward]] sends Karashi a note this way.
133	* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' sees Steadman delivers a note for [[spoiler:Jeanne]] in [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=776 this strip.]]
134	* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Haley combines this with PassingNotesInClass as a gag [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0438.html during the Azure city battle,]] the arrow hitting a hobgoblin mook about to attack Elan. Said arrow has a cute romantic note on notebook paper. Hinjo plays up the role of the exasperated teacher who takes the note and requests to see Elan after class, err, battle.
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137	[[folder:Web Videos]]
138	* ''WebVideo/{{Shadiversity}}'' experimented with the practicality of attaching messages to arrows. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHcge_HYqHI In one of his videos]] he tried different ways of attaching pieces of paper to an arrow, tested its range and how secure the attachment is.
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141	[[folder:Western Animation]]
142	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' receives one of these from the Sheriff of [=RottingHam=] in "Robbin Juice of Sherweird Forest" after the Sheriff kidnaps Lydia.
143	* ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai''. In "A Fixed Number of Paths", Heiji Shindo says that when he drops the red ribbon in his hand, Mizu and Taigen will find themselves under a RainOfArrows. When this happens Heiji's GiantMook, who is waiting outside the ravine with Ringo, has an arrow with a red ribbon attached stick in the ground next to him. He picks up his club and goes to kill Ringo, who fortunately poisoned his soup in advance.
144	* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' and Penfold receive a message tied to an arrow which is impaled in a tree -- with Penfold's cap attached to it -- in "Once Upon a Timeslip".
145	* Played for two consecutive gags in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' movie "Bender's Game", where as the siege against Wipe Castle begins, an onlooking centaur fires an arrow to an outpost on a distant hill, where an offscreen messenger fires ''another'' arrow to another hill, and repeating for a few turns, even as one of them [[AnnoyingArrows gets audibly hit and makes an "agh!" sound]]. Eventually, an arrow reaches the main destination at the home of the centaurs, where they have prepared an arrangement of targets marked with emergency notices: "Flood", "Fire", "Economic Downturn", [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking "Celebrity Breakup"]] (and that one has ''much'' more arrow marks than the rest), and the final one the arrow hits: "War".
146	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' sees George receive an arrow with a note, saying (after a list of demands) "...this is your last warning." George says he never even got a first warning. George receives a second arrow: "Correction: this is your ''first'' warning."
147	* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' MadeForTVMovie "Wrath of the Spider Queen". The titular villain has invaded the Endsville school with the sole purpose to steal Grim's position as the Grim Reaper. She has her Dark Elf vassals send "messages from the Spider Queen" through this trope. First with an arrow pierces his forehead, revealing herself as Velma Green, which doesn't ring any bells. An ax then lands at the back of his skull with another note tied to it: "From junior high school, stupid." Grim still dismisses the connection until a lance pierces him from behind, this time with a familiar school photo of Velma tied to it.
148	* ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'': In "Thanks to Minnie", a GossipEvolution montage features WesternAnimation/{{Robin Hood\|1973}} sending a message with his bow and arrow.
149	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
150	** The WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck short "WesternAnimation/TheScarletPumpernickel" has this as part of the swashbuckler film Daffy pitches to J.L Warner.
151	** In "Homeless Hare", WesternAnimation/BugsBunny drops a brick with a telegram tied to it on the face of the burly construction worker.
152	--->'''Message:''' Okay, Hercules, you asked for it. --Bugs Bunny
153	** The title card for "WesternAnimation/RobinHoodDaffy" shows an arrowgram being shot into a bullseye. After a couple of seconds, the view pulls back and the audience can see Daffy had fired it from about six-inches away.
154	* ''WesternAnimation/NumbChucks'': In "Kung Fear", the Chucks want to contact the lint monster. Not having its phone number, they decide the best way to do so is to shower the town with ArrowsOnFire with notes tied to them.
155	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\|2003}}'' (2003), Leonardo gets an invitation from Oroku Saki this way.
156	-->'''Leonardo:''' It's not your regular mail, I guess Mikey would call it "Air Mail".
157	* In the Tex Avery MGM cartoon "WesternAnimation/WhoKilledWho", the victim of a potential murder receives a note attached to a dagger that reads "You will die at 11:00!"
158	-->'''Victim:''' Heavens! I can't die at eleven!\
159	''[a second dagger with another note is thrown in; it reads "Okay... make it 11:30"]''
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162	[[folder:Real Life]]
163	* Using rockets or missiles to deliver mail has been done by various nations throughout history, often as experiments or gimmicks. The US Postal Service once famously used a Regulus cruise missile to deliver 3,000 pieces of mail, consisting entirely of commemorative postal covers addressed to the President, the Postmaster General, and numerous other public officials and VIP's to celebrate the event. The Post Office established a post office on a Navy submarine, which postmarked the letters before loading them into the missile, which was launched at a nearby naval station, where the mail was sorted and forwarded to the postal service for delivery by the typical methods. During UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo, on the Eastern Front, when radio communication wasn't available or forbidden because of stealth, the Red Army employed dud [[MacrossMissileMassacre Katyusha missiles]] to deliver mail.
164	* During World War II, Allied soldiers would sometimes write rude messages to the Nazis on bombs that would then be dropped on Germany. They didn't really expect anyone to be alive to read them, and the bomb blowing up would have destroyed the writing anyway. This has been repeated by various militaries in other wars, including [[https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axg9j/ukrainians-will-write-your-message-on-munitions-aimed-at-russians-for-donations accepting donation for writing messages]].
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