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* Fozzie Bear mails himself to the Muppet Theatre in ''Comicbook/TheMuppetShowComicBook'' #3. Unfortunately, he addressed the box to ''himself'', so Kermit won't let anyone else open it...

* In TheNineties Australian series ''Embassy'', someone tries to smuggle himself out of the country via the crate method. Unfortunately, he makes the mistake of paying the smugglers in advance and has to be rescued by one of the embassy staff, who points out the holes in the crate. "[[CementShoes I don't think they're for letting the air in]]."
* ''Series/FatherBrown'': In "The Paradise of Thieves", the murderer gained access to the bank vault by having himself shipped in inside a crate supposedly containing pieces of art.

* The ''Film/MysteriousDoctorSatan'' wants to break into a guarded warehouse to steal its {{unobtanium}}, so he has his KillerRobot mailed to the warehouse in a large crate.

* The Finnish Indie horror/comedy film ''Film/RareExports'' ends with brainwashed [[OurElvesAreDifferent human-like creatures]] being sent through the mail. The actual movie is twice as unsettling as that sounds.
* ''Film/LiveAndLetDie''. In a [[DragonTheirFeet final attempt]] to kill Film/JamesBond and Solitaire, Tee Hee has himself smuggled on board their train inside a mailbag.
* At the end of ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'', Bond turns the last surviving villain over to General Pushkin, who has him shipped back to Moscow in a diplomatic bag (As mentioned in the Real Life section, a common way for the Soviets to transport prisoners back to Russia).

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainFlamingo'': Attempted in "[[Recap/CaptainFlamingoS1E15FaceMoreProblemsTheEvenGreaterEscape The Even Greater Escape]]". Milo mails Rutger as a package from his origami kit to get him away from his babysitter who keeps tabs on him in order to play in the hockey championship game. It backfires since the package sends him to a hockey game in Sweden.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainFlamingo'': Attempted in "The Even Greater Escape", where the Captain and Lizbeth mail Rutger as a package to get him away from a babysitter who keeps tabs on him. It backfires since the package sends him to a Swedish hockey game and not to the hockey game he's meant to go to.

Not to be confused with [[BulletproofHumanShield armor made out of humans]]. Despite the name, this can include human-like characters, such as {{Funny Animal}}s.

Not to be confused with [[BulletproofHumanShield armor made out of humans]]. Despite the name, this can include human-like characters, such as FunnyAnimals.

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* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainFlamingo'': Attempted in "The Even Greater Escape", where Milo and Lizbeth mail Rutger as a package to get him away from a babysitter who keeps tabs on him. It backfires since the package sends him to a Swedish hockey game and not to the hockey game he's meant to go to.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainFlamingo'': Attempted in "The Even Greater Escape", where the Captain and Lizbeth mail Rutger as a package to get him away from a babysitter who keeps tabs on him. It backfires since the package sends him to a Swedish hockey game and not to the hockey game he's meant to go to.

* Attempted in ''WesternAnimation/CaptainFlamingo'', where he and Lizbeth mail Rutger as a package to get him away from a babysitter who keeps tabs on him. It backfires.

I'm gonna mail myself to you!"''

* In two ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons, Porky Pig tries to get rid of Charlie Dog this way. [[TheCatCameBack Charlie always gets sent back]].

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13198950/138/Crazy-Trouble-With-Love-Part-8 Ty Sisters and Aang]]'', a fight between [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Aang and Ty Lee]] ends with the both of them falling into a care package that Ty Lee was planning to send to her family. When some Fire Nation soldiers come across the crate, they assume that Ty Lee had already finished packing and promptly shipped the crate off.

* In ''Film/{{Zenon}} : the Zequel'', Zenon travel to Earth by hiding herself in a box put among the luggage of passengers of a spacial capsule. Unbeknowst to her, Margie has hidden in another box to follow her.
* The Finnish Indie horror/comedy film ''Film/RareExports'' ends with brainwashed[[OurElvesAreDifferent human-like creatures]] being sent through the mail. The actual movie is twice as unsettling as that sounds.

* One ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' strip had Donald try to get rid of a stray cat that was always annoying him by mailing them to China. It fails because the cat ''gave birth'' while in transit, and thus [[ No Conservation Of Mass the package was heavier]] than what Donald paid for:

* There is a very twisted Music/VelvetUnderground song, "The Gift", that explores this. The lyrics are a short story written by Music/LouReed and read by John Cale about young man named Waldo who decides to mail himself to his girlfriend Marcia, whom he met before they went to college in different states, not realizing she has moved on. He arrives at Marcia's apartment, whereupon Marcia and her friend Sheila see the package is from Waldo and decide they might as well open it. [[spoiler: The crate is nailed shut; Marcia and Sheila's attempts to open it are futile until Marcia grabs a sheet metal cutter. Sheila stabs a big hole in the crate...and Waldo's head.]]

* One ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' strip had Donald try to get rid of a stray cat that was always annoying him by mailing them to China. It fails because the cat ''gave birth'' while in transit, and thus the package was heavier than what Donald paid for:

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* In ''Fanfic/FamilyGuyFanon'''s version of "The Son Also Draws", Meg says how excited her is to be going to New York, ''with her family for once''. With a cutaway showing her being trapped in a package and getting sent to New York. The man who opens the package and sees her implies [[NoodleIncident this isn't the first time this happened]].
--->'''Man''': Aw, not you again. Send her back!

* ''WesternAnimation/EggheadRidesAgain'': Egghead mails himself to the Bar-None Ranch in Wahoo, Wyoming. When the ranch worker gets the mail, he receives an envelope (like the kind you send cards and letters in). When he opens up the envelope, Egghead falls out.

* ''Literature/FamilySkeletonMysteries'': How book 4 opens - Georgia gets a pair of packages from her parents, and one turns out to contain Sid (the titular [[DemBones family skeleton]]), who'd mailed himself to her new temporary address.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode [[Recap/FuturamaS3E19RoswellThatEndsWell "Roswell That Ends Well"]] has ''President Truman'' transported in a crate labelled "canned eggs"--which he ''breaks'' his way out of. [[RuleOfFunny It's left to our imagination]] if this was a security measure or just a bizarre preference.

* A ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode had Tommy Pickles sneak into the mailman's bag and explores the post office to find a "baby" (really a toy his dad ordered to compare with his own handmade doll) that will be delivered to his family. Tommy gets mistaken for a piece of mail and is sent through the system of mail sorting machines and chutes, almost gets stuck in the dead letter office, and finds the package, climbing into it and going home this way.

See also GirlInABox.