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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}}

* 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.

* 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.}}

* ''[[Dad'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.''

* [[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: The 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

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