Basic Trope: The mail always goes through. Always.
- Straight: Alice the Courier gives Bob a Love Letter from Cameron, even though there's a ferocious blizzard outside.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob is stranded on an uncharted, uninhabited island, but Alice finds him and delivers that Love Letter.
- It's After the End and Earth has become a hard-core Death World in which taking a single step outside of your home is seen as potential suicide. It still doesn't stop Alice from delivering the mail.
- Downplayed: Alice arrives later than usual due to the inclement weather, but Bob still gets his Love Letter.
- Justified:
- Alice is simply a Determinator.
- The setting is a wild frontier country. The mail/courier service is the only way of delivering important messages, one of the few things holding society together out there and is a metaphoric lifeline. Couriers have to face many obstacles and sometimes extreme weather without being deterred simply to do their job.
- For Alice, a raging blizzard isn't much worse than the other things she deals with while on the job.
- Inverted: Alice and the postal service that employs her are infamous for delivering mail late, if at all.
- Subverted: Alice staggers up to Bob's front door and proudly hands him a letter intended for a different address.
- Double Subverted: Alice gave him the right letter after all; it was just stuck to another envelope.
- Parodied:
- The postal service uses Bio-Augmentation and/or Cyborging to create an army of unstoppable super-mailmen.
- Alice will do whatever it takes to deliver the mail, but expect her to mutter her reluctance every step of the way, especially if she has to face off against something she loathes like inclement blizzards or dogs.
- Normally Alice would boast of being this, but the situation (or the package) is too weird/obscene/violent/whatever for her and she skedaddles as soon as possible.
- Bob is stranded in an abandoned mine in the middle of an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean, and he needs a drill. He gets the idea of ordering it by mail. Five seconds after placing the letter with the order inside of an old, rusty mailbox by the mine's (collapsed) entrance, Alice bursts through the blockage like the Kool-Aid Man and delivers the drill.
- Alice is killed on her rounds. Her spirit continues delivering the mail.
- Alice is an unstoppable jury summons deliverer. At least half of the time she is showing her unstoppability is because of what people try to do to her to get out of jury duty.
- Alice braves blizzards, rabid dogs and Zombie Apocalypses to deliver her mail, but there is one thing that stops her quite efficiently every time: not enough posts on the letter.
- Parodied inversion: Alice's mailing service is so infamous for its inefficiency that Alice delivering a single letter is treated as her being this.
- Zig Zagged: The postal service orders its employees not to go out in the blizzard, but Alice does it anyway, but she gets completely lost. Then she stumbles upon it by chance.
- Averted: The postal service is reliable, but not infallible.
- Enforced:
- The production is borrowing vehicles and uniforms from a real postal service and can't afford to represent them in a negative light.
- The author is a postal worker and Alice is based on one of their colleagues.
- The writers of The Misadventures of Bob have decided to homage the old Road Runner Looney Tunes by having Bob send an Irrevocable Message through snail mail (for whatever reason) and the reason why it's "irrevocable" is because Alice is the deliverer, and she won't heed either messages from headquarters to abort or Bob trying to run her over with a steamroller.
- Lampshaded: "Of course it'll get there. The mail always goes through around here."
- Invoked: Cameron absolutely needs that Love Letter to get to Bob, but can't deliver it in person and has no other way to communicate with him.
- Exploited: Bob is a hitman hired to kill Alice, and he sent a fake letter to an address on her route so he could catch her off-guard.
- Defied: Daniel hunts down Alice and prevents her from delivering the Love Letter by leaving her Bound and Gagged in a closet and burning it.
- Discussed: "No mailman would dare to go out in this weather." *knock knock* "Delivery."
- Conversed: "On TV, the mailman wouldn't even slow down for this blizzard."
- Implied: Alice isn't shown delivering the Love Letter, but Bob is seen opening it while the blizzard is very visibly raging outside.
- Deconstructed: Alice becomes obsessed with ensuring that her deliveries always arrive on time and eventually suffers a nervous breakdown at the mere thought of being late.
- Reconstructed: Alice is obsessed with delivering the mail on time, but overcomes her doubt in herself and channels her anxiety into becoming the best darned mail carrier ever.
- Played For Laughs: Alice braves the worst blizzard in recorded history to give Bob an important letter from Nigerian royalty.
- Very few people use couriers for mail because of online communication, so Alice works as a pizza deliverer. She stills takes her job as seriously as she can.
- Played For Drama:
- Bob is nearly Driven to Suicide because he thinks Cameron doesn't love him, but Alice delivers the Love Letter just in time to stop him.
- Alice makes a point of trying to deliver a message in the middle of a horrible situation (terrorist attack, major disaster, war, etc) as a symbol that society still hasn't crumbled.
- Alice's relentless refusal to stop delivering the mail is a notable sign that she is either not all there or has motives beyond "being a good government employee".
- Played For Horror:
- Alice is an old-school slasher film with a wanna-be Jason Voorhees with a "mailman" gimmick as the villain. Doesn't get more "unstoppable" than that. You can also guess what happens to the "recipients" of her "messages".
- Alice has been cursed to wander the universe, delivering mail for all eternity.
- Alice is secretly a member of a group of Western Terrorists assigned to deliver a mail bomb, and as a result she is this out of (potentially suicidal) fanaticism.
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