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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 (Several days to a week, at best) the package can be sent through in as short as a few hours or even minutes in fiction. This trope only applies if they are sent in a package or delivered as one.
See also [[Girl in
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[The Aristocats]]'' had the butler Edgar, attempt to mail the kittens and cats away to Timbuktu at the end of film. In the end, he himself gets thrown into the chest, and is mailed off.
* The Chipettes in ''[[Alvin and the Chipmunks
* The ''[[George of the Jungle (
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* In ''[[Hudson Hawk]]'', Eddie wakes up in a packing material shipping crate in another country after being rendered unconscious.
* The Real Life example (see below) about the East German prisoner (imprisoned for [[wikipedia:Republikflucht|Republikflucht]]) was depicted in the movie ''Fuehrer Ex''.
* He's not techincally a human, but [[Short Circuit
== [[Literature]] ==
* In the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld
* [[wikipedia:Flat Stanley|Flat Stanley]] was transported cheaply this way.
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* ''[[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.
* Part of Number Six's escape attempt an episode of ''[[The Prisoner]]'' includes being shipped in a wooden box from Poland to London.
* Subverted in ''[[Malcolm in
* 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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* ''[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi]]'' had Kaz attempt this to ge back into the tour bus when their cats, Jeng Kang and Tekirai lock him out. Kaz gets mailed to a bunch of other places courtesy of the cats until the package eventually returns.
* A ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' episode had the pair attempting to mail themselves.
* ''[[The Simpsons (
* In two ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoons, Porky Pig tries to get rid of Charlie Dog this way. [[The Cat Came Back|Charlie always gets sent back]].
* On ''[[
* [[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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* In the [[
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