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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.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* A British TV ad for Tennants lager had a man attempt to stow away in a shipping crate to get deported back to the country he supposedly came from.
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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.
* 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.
* In 1965, Brian Robson was a 19-year-old working for Victorian Railways; airfare back to his home in Cardiff, Wales from Australia £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.
* 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.
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