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Let's say you wanted to get somewhere really fast, or need to get someone out of your hair. Just send them through the mail! This is what human mail is - someone getting mailed (intentionally or accidentally) somewhere in a package.
Naturally, it would be nearly impossible for someone to actually get sent through the mail service in [[Real Life]]. While packages take time to deliver (
See also [[Girl in a Box]]. Not to be confused with the [[Mail Order Bride]] shtick, nor with a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|non-female human being]].
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[
* [[wikipedia:Flat Stanley|Flat Stanley]] was transported cheaply this way.
== [[Live
* In ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' episode with Jim Nabors, Jim played a travel agent and a monster asks for the cheapest travel package he has. Jim flattens the monster with a weight, sticks a stamp on him and mails him.
* ''[[Firefly]]'' had an episode where a former independence solider who served with Mal and Zoe mail himself to them to protect himself from an Alliance solider chasing him for smuggled goods.
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* Subverted in ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'' when Reese wants Dewey to mail him somewhere. Dewey packages him up and pretends to mail Reese by simulating movement and sounds. [[Too Dumb to Live|Reese falls for it.]]
* The ''[[Trailer Park Boys]]'' had an episode where Cory and Trevor are mailed to a [[Snoop Dogg]] concert...along with lots of marijuana.
* One of the girls in ''[['Allo 'Allo!
== [[Music]] ==
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* A ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' episode had the pair attempting to mail themselves.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Bart on the Road" had Bart and his friends travel home in a shipment crate.
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'':
** In two
** [[Bugs Bunny]] once mailed himself to [[Washington DC]]
* On ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'', Bloo tries to send Cheese away through the mail. Cheese gets sent back due to [[Crowning Moment of Funny|insufficient postage to tolerate smell]].
▲* [[Bugs Bunny]] once mailed himself to [[Washington DC]].
* Garfield mailing Nermal to Abu Dhabi, or threatening to do so, was something of a Running Gag in ''[[Garfield and Friends]]''.
** In one episode, "Monday Misery", Garfield mails himself to Samoa, hoping to escape a bad Monday. It doesn't work.
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== Real Life ==
* Henry "Box" Brown was an African-American slave in Virginia. He successfully escaped in a shipping box to Pennsylvania, a free state. ''[[Cracked.com]]''{{'}}s [http://www.cracked.com/article_20504_the-5-most-badass-ways-people-escaped-from-slavery.html The 5 Most Badass Ways People Escaped from Slavery] states that when Brown later bragged about how he did it, slavery opponent Frederick Douglass was infuriated because he wanted this escape method to be kept secret so that other slaves could use it.
* A German prisoner once snuck into the mail room and climbed into a box that was picked up by the courier.
* A man named Charles McKinley shipped himself in a box from New York to Dallas to visit his parents, and saved on air fares by charging the shipping fees to his former employer. He took the rest of the journey by riding on a plane normally, though.
* Since the US Parcel Post Service began in 1913, rural communities can receive goods at a low price. This occurred to small children as well because they can be sent by mail for less than the cost of a train ticket. Famously, four-year-old May Pierstroff was mailed across Idaho to her grandparents as a baby chicken and was just short of the 50 pound limit. Of course years later, regulations were issued against sending children by mail.
* In 1965, Brian Robson was a 19-year-old working for Victorian Railways. Airfare back to his home in Cardiff, Wales from Australia was £700 and he only made £40/month, so he had two accomplices [https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/08/thinking-inside-the-box-the-welsh-teen-who-tried-to-post-himself-home-from-australia load him into a shipping crate] in which he made it as far as the US before being detected. The rest of the trip was completed by conventional means.
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