History Main / HumanMail

** Niche started off as this, although she's actually NotQuiteHuman.
** Also how Lag Seeing was introduced. Gauche found him near the ruins of his mother's house, with an address label on his jacket asking him to deliver him to his aunt's house.

* One WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse comic had gangsters rob museums using a fax machine that could fax people (and their booty). It sounds like teleportation at first, until you consider that people were digitalised and appeared in cyberspace, where anthropomorphic programs in the form of mailmen literally carried them across the data highway. The mailman could even lose their cargo, and (in case someone was faxed against his will) some could be reasoned with to bring you to other destinations, [[LawfulStupid or others wouldn't listen]].

* In the ''Series/{{Young and Hungry}}'' episode "Young and Couchy", Gabi travels to San Fransisco to patch up with Yolanda by mailing Jim's desk and hiding in the delivery box.

* 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 realising 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.]]

* In ''Videogame/{{Dishonored}}'', specifically the DLC ''Knife of Dunwall'', a [[TechnicalPacifist nonlethal]] option for neutralising a target is knocking him unconscious, dumping him in a crate, nailing it shut, and shipping him to Tyvia, the most remote corner of the Empire. This is apparently a common enough means of getting people places that there's a special routine and method of preparation to ensure the crate's occupant survives the trip.

* Almost as soon as they existed in a form we would recognise today, many postal services realised there was an opportunity to make some extra money on routes that served remote rural communities by adding some extra seats to the vehicle and taking paying passengers. These [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postbus Postbus]] services were widespread in Europe up until the 1960s and are still operating in a few countries, although most were spun off into separate mass transit companies from the 1980s onwards.

-->--'''Music/WoodyGuthrie''', "Mail Myself To You"

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Diana has Serva moved across town in a trunk by a moving service in order to help hide where Serva is from Hypnota.

* ''Manga/TegamiBachi'':

* After America, France, and England got sick of caring for him, Italy in ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'' is sent back to Germany in a beat-up cardboard box that one would use for mailing off packages that said "FUCK" on it.

* ''Film/ShortCircuit'': He's not technically a human, but Johnny 5 mails himself to Benjamin in [[CityWithNoName the city,]] (with the help of Newton and Stephanie), after being rejected as an airplane passenger.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZIV9GWD34U "Mail Myself to You"]] by Woody Guthrie
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6DUAsHFVPo "Mail Myself to Elvis"]]

* The Music/{{Gorillaz}} guitarist, Noodle, arrived at Kong Studios in a crate once and traveled back to Japan by mail another time.

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* In ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' episode with Paul Williams, Paul plays a travel agent and a monster asks for the cheapest travel package he has. Paul flattens the monster with a weight, sticks a stamp on him and mails him.
* Kermit, Fozzie, and Gonzo are shipped to England this way in ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper''. And in the end, they and the rest of the Muppets are shipped back to America this way too... and both times they're tossed out of the plane!
* In the ''Series/TheWubbulousWorldOfDrSeuss'' episode, "The Cat in the Hat Gets a Package", Sarah Hall-Small does this in an ImagineSpot when she wonders what it would be like to mail herself to her grandmother while she waits in line at the Post Office.
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* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', you can hide in the cardboard box on a truck to rapidly travel between areas.

* In ''Videogame/{{Dishonored}}'', specifically the DLC ''Knife of Dunwall'', a [[TechnicalPacifist nonlethal]] option for neutralising a target is knocking him unconscious, dumping him in a crate, nailing it shut, and shipping him to Tyvia, the most remote corner of the Empire. This is apparently a common enough means of getting people places that there's a special routine and method of preparation to ensure the crate's occupant survives the trip.
* In ''VideoGame/DisgaeaDimension2'', Angel Scicily mailed herself from Celestia to the Netherworld in a box. She claims to have done this to avoid getting lost, which everyone except Flonne thinks is stupid.
** In ''VideoGame/Disgaea5AllianceOfVengeance'', Flonne uses it to send Laharl, Etna, and Killia out of Laharl's castle and back to Seraphina's pocket dimension. She did it because she and Sicily hadn't finished Laharl's [[SurpriseParty birthday party]].
* Day 2 of the VideoGame/HotlineMiami heist in ''VideoGame/{{PAYDAY 2}}'' begins with the crew jumping out of the crates Bain used to ship them to the Commissar's fortified tenement building.

* Reynir of ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'' winds up meeting up with the rest of the party this way, having [[http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=286 hidden himself in a cargo container]] to get smuggled ashore so he can see the world for the first time. Unfortunately for him, he winds up in the worst place imaginable since the container was being sent to an expedition into [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace The Silent World]] ''and'' he is not one of TheImmune to TheVirus that caused TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

* An episode of ''WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou'' talks about why you don't try this in [[RealityEnsues real life]] when a [[http://now.msn.com/hu-seng-a-chinese-man-nearly-suffocates-trying-to-mail-himself-to-his-girlfriend Chinese man]] suffocated after mailing himself to his girlfriend. The channel points out he forgot [[Music/TheLonelyIsland step one (cut a hole in a box)]].

* Ricegum supposedly did this in one video and ended up getting delivered to an exercise guru [=YouTuber=]'s apartment. The receiver did not take it well, but Ricegum appealed to him by giving him a shoutout in the video, and the receiver later had Ricegum guest star in one of his videos to make up for him being upset.
* Happens to Zhuge Xu in ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms.'' Zhong Hui mails him home as a punishment, mostly to annoy Deng Ai.

* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', annoying midget pervert Happosai gets stuffed into a box to be mailed somewhere a couple of times in both Manga and Anime. It never sticks.
* After America, France, and England got sick of caring for him, Italy in ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'' is sent back to Germany in a beat-up cardboard box that one would use for mailing off packages that said "FUCK" on it.
* In ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'', the Out Club girls try to figure out a cheap way to insulate their sleeping bags for winter camping. After layering several methods including bubble wrap and a cardboard box, Chiaki (the one who's in the bag) remarks "Am I being shipped somewhere?"

* One WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse comic had gangsters rob museums using a fax machine that could fax people (and their booty). It sounds like teleportation at first, until you consider that people were digitalised and appeared in cyberspace, where anthropomorphic programs in the form of mailmen literally carried them across the data highway. The mailman could even lose their cargo, and (in case someone was faxed against his will) some could be reasoned with to bring you to other destinations, [[LawfulStupid or others wouldn't listen]].

* ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'': 'Operation: Pig in a Poke' involves shipping Bob inside a crate to Hard 8 Enterprises so he can download command words from Tulley's computer. The plan starts to unravel when Brian can not afford to send the crate overnight express, so he opts to send it freight instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingChanAndTheChanClan'' #4 story "Eye Of The Idol" (February 1974) had the family searching for the titular missing gem. Suspecting that maybe the culprit mailed it, Mimi tosses Scooter in a mail kiosk to look for it.

* Mac Manc [=McManx=] from ''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy'' tries to mail himself back to England, with Rob telling him that they already bought a plane ticket for him.
* Bernie of ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' shipped his then-girlfriend Didi back home from Vietnam by sending her through the mail.

* ''Expelled'': Felix's older brother, Ben, reveals that he escaped {{Boarding School}} by stowing away in a shipping crate which contains a bike he is supposed to deliver as well as changing the address to the O'Neel house.

* The Real-Life example (see below) about the East German prisoner (imprisoned for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republikflucht Republikflucht]]) is depicted in the movie ''Fuehrer Ex''.
* He's not technically a human, but [[Film/ShortCircuit Johnny 5]] mails himself to Benjamin in [[CityWithNoName the city,]] (with the help of Newton and Stephanie), after being rejected as an airplane passenger.
* In ''Film/MouseHunt'' the closest the brothers came to getting rid of that mouse was mailing him to Fidel Castro. It got sent back due to insufficient postage.

* In ''13'' not all the contestants in the DeadlyGame are volunteers, including an inmate from a Mexican prison who's ShippedInShackles in a crate which is only opened two days later. The first priority of his captors is to give him a shower.
* 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.
* At the start of ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' the BigBad is shown as an apparent ArmsDealer, selling aluminum shipping crates long enough to hold missiles. We later discover he's creating mutants to be used as SlaveMooks, and TheDragon is shown injecting these supersoldiers with a drug to knock them out before placing them in those crates.

* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "[[Recap/FireflyE12TheMessage The Message]]", a former independence soldier who served with Mal and Zoe mailed his body to them after he gets over his head with some smugglers (who happen to be corrupt Alliance police officers) with a request that they get him back to his family home. [[spoiler: Turns out he was faking his death with a drug that left him OnlyMostlyDead]]
* Part of Number Six's escape attempt ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'' episode "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE2TheChimesOfBigBen The Chimes of Big Ben]]" includes being shipped in a wooden box from Poland to London.
* Subverted in ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' when Reese wants Dewey to mail him somewhere. Dewey packages him up and pretends to mail Reese by simulating movement and sounds. [[TooDumbToLive Reese falls for it.]]
* The ''Series/TrailerParkBoys'' has an episode where Cory and Trevor are mailed to a Music/SnoopDogg concert... along with lots of marijuana.

* In ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', Catalina arrived in the US in a crate. Upon starting the journey, she was given a newspaper, but she said it would be too dark in the crate to read. The response? [[{{Squick}} It's not for reading.]]
* According to ''Series/PopUpVideo'' when they "popped" Music/{{Madonna}}'s "Express Yourself", "It's illegal to [[{{Pun}} Federal Express yourself."]]
* ''Series/{{Oz}}''. Augustus Hill asks Verne Schillinger (whose Aryan Brotherhood run the prison mailroom) if he can escape prison this way, but he's just laughed at. The end of the episode shows Hill ducking into a box, but he's still there the next week, so his attempt was obviously unsuccessful.
* In ''Series/GameOfThrones'', Varys has a holed wooden crate delivered to him which contains [[spoiler:the warlock who cut out his genitals long ago.]] Later he uses a similar crate to [[spoiler:smuggle Tyrion out of King's Landing.]]

* In the ''Series/{{Young and Hungry}}'' episode "Young and Couchy", Gabi travels to San Fransisco to patch up with Yolanda by mailing Jim's desk and hiding in the delivery box.
* In the 1990s 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/HorribleHistories'' had a sketch about a pair of suffragettes attempting to have themselves mailed to 10 Downing Street. Rattus tells us that suffragettes really did attempt to have themselves mailed to the Prime Minister, and this was the reason why a law was passed making it illegal to send humans through the Royal Mail.

* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'': In "A Shot in the Dark", Alice smuggles herself from Canada back into the USA inside a box.
* The deputies from ''Series/Reno911'' mailed a Scotland Yard detective back to England after he [[spoiler:was killed in a shootout.]]

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. "Dagger of the Mind" opens with the Enterprise beaming up a crate of research material from a PenalColony. Turns out there's an escaped inmate inside, wearing a breathing mask.
* The villains of the ''Series/HoneyWest'' episode "Whatever Lola Wants..." try to force Honey into a box so they can mail her to the syndicate in Caracas.

* Gerry is accidentally shipped to Bird-Person's wedding in ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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 there.

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* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': Adyson of the Fireside Girls gets caught in the mail system while looking for Isabella's letter that's being sent to Phineas.

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* The ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' movie has George ship himself from UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco to the jungle via [=UPS=].

* The ''Series/TrailerParkBoys'' has an episode where Cory and Trevor are mailed to a Music/SnoopDogg concert...along with lots of marijuana.

* 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 who he met before they went to college in different states, not realising 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.]]

** In one episode, "Monday Misery", Garfield mails himself to Samoa hoping to escape a bad Monday. Because of the time-zone difference, he arrives in Samoa just as Monday is starting.

* [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar Eastern Bloc]] countries and especially USSR ''did'' have this trope as a habit: sending defectors, diplomats declared as ''[[PersonaNonGrata personae non gratae]]'' or otherwise difficult people back home as diplomat mail.

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** Also how Lag Seeing was introduced: he was being mailed to his aunt's house.

'''Yang''': [[CrazyAwesome Oh, he does stuff like this all the time]].\\