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* Calvin of ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' sometimes attempts to run away by sitting in a box by the mailbox with a vague address written on it (for example, "To Australia"). It...doesn't work.

* [[Garfield]] occasionally tries to mail Nermal, his kitten rival, to Abu Dhabi.

== [[Truth in Television]] ==

* Henry Box Brown was an African-American slave in Virginia. He successfully escaped in a shipping box to Pennsylvania, a free state.

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* A German prisoner once snuck into the mail room and climbed into a box that was picked up by the courier.

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* 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.

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* 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.

== [[Video Games]] ==

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* In the [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] episode "Kracked Krabs", Mr Krabs and Spongebob travel to an awards ceremony for Cheapest Krab. In order to travel as cheaply as possible they mail themselves there at the price of a 1 cent stamp.

== 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.

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* A German prisoner once snuck into the mail room and climbed into a box that was picked up by the courier.

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* 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.

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* 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.