An index dealing with postal services and the delivery of goods and communiques.
Not to be confused with: Blackmail
Tropes:
- Acquainted in Real Life: Two online friends know each other in real life, but don't know that.
- Arrowgram: Sending someone a letter by shooting an arrow near them with the letter attached to the arrow.
- Bags of Letters: Huge bags of letters means everyone has a lot to say about you.
- Blood-Stained Letter: A letter with a blood splatter means something bad's gonna happen.
- Chain Letter: Forward this letter to other people or you'll get bad luck!
- Courier: Mercantile message/cargo delivery person.
- Deadly Delivery: A killer disguises themselves as a courier, mailman, or delivery man to get close to their target.
- "Dear John" Letter: Ending a relationship via mail.
- Delivery Not Desired: An emotional message that ends up unsent.
- Delivery Stork: The stork delivers babies to their parents.
- Epilogue Letter: Someone reading a letter is used to end the story.
- Epistolary Novel: A story told entirely through an exchange of letters.
- Finger in the Mail: You torment the loved ones of a person you've kidnapped or killed by mailing them the person's dismembered body parts.
- Flying Postman: Postal messengers travel by flight.
- Forged Message: Writing a message under someone else's name.
- Fourth-Wall Mail Slot: Fictional characters respond to real-life fan mail.
- Going Postal: Postal workers go crazy.
- Human Mail: Sending yourself (or someone else) in the mail.
- I Never Got Any Letters: You sent messages, but someone else intercepted before they could reach the recipent.
- Instant Home Delivery: Place an order and it arrives unrealistically fast.
- Instant Messenger Pigeon: Birds are really fast at delivering messages.
- Irrevocable Message: Send an angry message and immediately regret it? You can't get it back.
- Letters to the Editor: The editor of the magazine responds to submitted mail.
- Locker Mail: Mail is delivered to someone's locker, usually in a school setting.
- Love Letter: Confess your love through writing a letter.
- Love Letter Lunacy: ...and ridiculous stuff happens.
- Mailman vs. Dog: Dogs and postal workers are natural enemies.
- Mail-Order Bride: Someone has a spouse delivered to them through mail order.
- Mail-Order Novelty: A tchotchke advertised in a magazine or comic book, which (usually) just ends up being utterly useless.
- Message in a Bottle: 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.
- Mistaken Message: The letter you just got isn't written by who you assume it was.
- Never Sent Any Letters: You got messages "from" someone, but they weren't written by them.
- Obsessive Love Letter: A love letter that comes off as incredibly creepy.
- Pelican Package Pouch: Send or receive messages using a pelican's mouth.
- Pen Pals: Friends who only communicate by mailing letters to each other.
- Product Delivery Ordeal: When the process of carrying or transporting the package is a challenge on its own.
- Reading The Enemy's Mail: Read your enemy's mail to learn their secrets and get the upper hand.
- Signed with a Kiss: A letter, envelope, or package has a kiss mark either in addition to or in place of a name signature.
- Snail Mail: In the digital age, more traditional postal services are seen as insanely slow.
- Strongly Worded Letter: Write a disapproving letter as a pathetic attempt to voice your complaints about something evil.
- Unintentional Final Message: A living character receives a message that a dead character composed before they knew they were about to die
- Unseen Pen Pal: Someone you communicate with over text isn't who you think.
- Unstoppable Mailman: The mailman won't let anything keep him from delivering the mail.
- Voiceover Letter: When someone reads a letter, we hear the letter being read by whoever wrote it.
- You Got Murder: Sending an explosive device as a mail package to kill the recipient.
