An index dealing with postal services and the delivery of goods and communiques.
Not to be confused with: Blackmail
Tropes:
- Acquainted in Real Life
- Arrowgram: Sending someone a letter by shooting an arrow near them with the letter attached to the arrow.
- Bags of Letters
- Blood-Stained Letter
- Chain Letter
- Deadly Delivery: A killer disguises themselves as a mailman/delivery man/courier to get close to their target.
- You Got Murder (AKA Letter Bomb)
- "Dear John" Letter: Ending a relationship via mail.
- Delivery Not Desired
- Delivery Stork: The stork delivers babies to their parents.
- Epilogue Letter
- 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
- Forged Message
- Fourth-Wall Mail Slot: Fictional characters respond to real-life fan mail.
- Going Postal: Postal workers go crazy.
- Human Mail
- I Never Got Any Letters
- Instant Home Delivery
- Instant Messenger Pigeon
- Irrevocable Message
- Letters to the Editor
- Love Letter
- Mailman vs. Dog: Dogs and postal workers are natural enemies.
- Mail-Order Bride: Someone has a spouse delivered to them through mail order.
- 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
- Pelican Package Pouch
- Pen Pals: Friends who only communicate by mailing letters to each other.
- Reading the Enemy's Mail
- Snail Mail: In the digital age, more traditional postal services are seen as insanely slow.
- Strongly Worded Letter
- 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
- 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.
