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1	An index dealing with postal services and the delivery of goods and communiques.
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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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