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{{quote|"Special delivery, a bomb. Did you order one?"|'''Inspector Clouseau''', ''Revenge of the [[Pink Panther]]''}}

{{quote|"My correspondence [...] is, as you know, a varied one, and I am somewhat upon my guard against any packages which reach me."|'''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''', brushing off a particularly nasty close call}}

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* In the first episode of ''[[Full Metal Panic!|Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu]]'', Sousuke detonates his shoe locker when he discovers it's been tampered with, under the assumption that someone planted a bomb in it. Of course, it was just a love letter, but he cites a case in which someone was killed by a bomb in the mailbox. This happens several more times.

* One of ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]'''s joke supplements contains a 'letter bomb' card, which gets shuffled into the opponent's deck and hits him for massive damage when drawn.

* ''[[Jingle All the Way]]'' has fun with this. Myron, a disgruntled postman, threatens a radio DJ with a package that he claims is a bomb which he discovered in the mail and kept for use in an emergency. It accidentally falls out of his hand and is revealed to be...a music box. Later, when the police show up, he threatens them with a different package. When the police let him go a retired bomb squad officer claims it's just a "harmless Christmas package", which blows up in his face, [[Non -Fatal Explosions|only turning his face black.]] When Myron hears the explosion he is surprised and disgusted that somebody really had sent a bomb through the postal system.

* In the book ''A Death in Vienna'' by Daniel Silva, the death is caused by a letter bomb sent to an ex-Mossad agent turned Nazi hunter.

* ''[[Jonathan Creek (TV)|Jonathan Creek]]'' had a writer poisoned with a hallucinating drug contained in a enclosed letter glue from some fan mail. Once he licked the letter he went a bit nuts and managed to stab himself in the back with a sword.

* ''[[Monk]]'' put a spin on this one, in the episode "Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect". Monk is working on a mail bomb murder case, and must figure out how his prime suspect was able to send the bomb while in a coma. And, of course, he does.

* One episode of ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' had letters containing an ''enhanced cold''.

* In ''[[Warehouse 13]]'', a teenaged [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]] uses this as his method of revenge once he gets his hands on [[Artifact of Doom|Poe's quill pen.]]

* In the ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]'' episode "The Saint" a social worker is killed by a lye bomb delivered in the mail.

* Used in an episode of ''[[Early Edition (TV)|Early Edition]]''.

* ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'' had DiNozzo contract pneumonic plague this way. {{spoiler|He got better.}}

* ''[[DadsDad's Army (TV)|Dads Army]]''. The platoon is given a mission to test security at an army base, and decide to infiltrate disguised as firemen. As usual things go wrong and they end up fighting a real fire elsewhere. A high-ranking officer arrives and tells Mainwaring not to worry as his 'other plan' worked. Turns out Wilson sent a fake bomb in the mail.

* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' has explosive runes (as mentioned in the OotS example).

** ''[[D 20D20 Modern]]'' has rules for sending ''any'' spell via email to effect the person who opens it (or even teleporting an [[Rule of Cool|assassin to them via IM for a sneak attack]]).

* The anger mages of ''[[Unknown Armies (Tabletop Game)|Unknown Armies]]'' have a spell that lets them enchant a letter, note or e-mail with another one of their spells (which can include damaging spells).

* This is the M.O. of the villain Death's Messenger from the ''Dark [[Champions]]'' sourcebook ''Murderer's Row''.

* ''[[Exalted]]'' has Bureaucracy Charms that allow you to write a [[Strongly Worded Letter]] with such venom that it actually does damage to the reader.

* [[The Order of the Stick]]: ''I prepared Explosive Runes this morning.''

* [[Eight 8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Ranger's arrows]] were delivered home [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/01/31/episode-1089-special-delivery/ with their momentum still intact].

* One ''[[Batman: theThe Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]'' episode had the scarecrow dosing people with contact poison by telegram. It was only his patented "fear toxin", though.

* In an episode of ''[[Tale Spin (Animation)|Tale Spin]]'', Shere Khan sends some pirate allies a special letter after they fail in their shared evil plot. Hint: its ticking and its NOT a clock.

* Anthrax

* The Unabomber

* A [[Darwin Award]] nominee- the attempted letter-bomber who neglected to pay enough postage. The letter was Returned To Sender... [[Bond One -Liner|and so was he.]]

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