History Main / FlyingPostman

Can be a form of MundaneUtility. Compare an InstantMessengerPigeon, which is not officially a sapient species but often gets the message there as efficiently as if it was. If you're comparing this trope to FlyingDutchman, you're probably reading too quickly.

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* ''Film/MoonriseKingdom'': Because the island setting of has no roads, mail has to be flown in by plane.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]

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* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' anime has Delibird's Delivery Service and Pelipper's Post Office. Other than being from two different regions, think of Delibird's Delivery Service as more akin to UPS while Pelipper's is your standard postal service. Another episode had a "Carrier Pidgey Express" parcel delivery service.

* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime has Delibird's Delivery Service and Pelipper's Post Office. Other than being from two different regions, think of Delibird's Delivery Service as more akin to UPS while Pelipper's is your standard postal service. Another episode had a "Carrier Pidgey Express" parcel delivery service.

* ''Series/DoctorWho''. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E7Kerblam Kerblam!]] use teleporting delivery robots to drop off their parcels. One teleports inside the TARDIS to deliver the Doctor a fez. And a DistressCall [[HelpHelpTrappedInTitleFactory printed on the packing slip]] that sets off the plot.

* In ''Creator/AnneMccaffrey'''s ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' books, fire-lizards deliver messages, although unless the distance is very short, they teleport rather than 'flying straight'. When not fighting thread, dragonriders deliver messages, cargo, and/or passengers as necessary.

* In ''Creator/Anne Mccaffrey'''s ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' books, fire-lizards deliver messages, although unless the distance is very short, they teleport rather than 'flying straight'. When not fighting thread, dragonriders deliver messages, cargo, and/or passengers as necessary.

In ''Creator/Anne Mccaffery'';s ''Series/Pern'' books, fire-lizards deliver messages, although unless the distance is very short, they teleport riather than 'flying straight.' When not fighting thread, Dragonriders deliver messages and packages--sometimes even cargo.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': An unnamed mail pegasus has a brief appearance in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E7WonderboltsAcademy Wonderbolts Academy]]". Similarly, MemeticBystander Derpy Hooves (a pegasus) has been shown to be a postal worker in several episodes.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'': The postman you meet is also winged, somewhat inexplicably.

* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingPocketCamp'': Pete the pelican can deliver camper requests instead of having the player go to each site in the campgrounds to deliver.

* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime has Delibird's Delivery Service and Pelipper's Post Office. Other than being from two different regions, think of Delibird's Delivery Service more akin to UPS while Pelipper's is your standard postal service. Another episode had a "Carrier Pidgey Express" parcel delivery service.
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', newspapers are delivered by trained seagulls all over the world, due to the huge amount of oceans and island. Furthermore, we later see that the Revolutionary Army seems to use large crows to deliver messages, and the World Government has been seen sending messenger bats to people.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'': One episode crosses this trope with DragonRider by casting the protagonists as dragon-riding mailcarriers.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiddlemostPost'': Parker is a postman, and being a cloud, he can of course float.

* ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat'': PAT3 is the helicopter used by Pat Clifton while working at the Special Delivery Service in Pencaster. As seen in the picture at the top of the page, there’s even a seat for Jess the black-and-white cat!

* ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat'': PAT 3 is the SDS Helicopter used by Pat Clifton while working at the Special Delivery Service in Pencaster

%%* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': Pete the pelican.

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* The [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon anime]] has Delibird's Delivery Service and Pelipper's Post Office. Other than being from two different regions, think of Delibird's Delivery Service more akin to UPS while Pelipper's is your standard postal service. Another episode had a "Carrier Pidgey Express" parcel delivery service.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, the Air Mail has largely been a monopoly of Klatch and its (now) civilian-orientated force of magic carpets - which now offer an unparelleled passenger and airmail service linking the major cities of the entire Disc. It has not been lost on Lord Vetinari that the Klatchians made a kind offer to ferry the diplomatic bags of Embassies to and from their home capitals - for a modest fee and a promise the diplomatic secrets will not be interecepted or tampered with while in transit. Vetinari's riposte was to offer the growing [[{{Pegasus}} Pegasus Service]] as Ankh-Morpork's airmail equivalent.
** This is working. However, the Ankh-Morpork Post Office absolutely ''insists'' that if the Pegasus Service pilots, all Air Witches, are to be used to deliver mail, then they ''must'' also pass the ordeal known as The Postman's Walk. hilarity ensues.

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* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series, owls are used to deliver mail. The Ministry of Magic uses enchanted paper airplanes for internal memos (although [[Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem [=MACUSA=]]] uses origami mice instead).

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* In ''ComicStrip/{{Shoe}}'' (a world populated by semi-anthropomorphic birds), Loon is a mail and general delivery flier.

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* ''Roleplay/ThereIsNoGATEWeDidNotFightThere'': For the marching cohorts of the armies of Rhavenfell (and possibly the rest of the Empire), messages are carried via ravens. Couriers for actual mail in the Empire proper can be handled by anyone, but the use of Harpies, who can fly, is slowly growing more popular in Rhavenfell due to their alliance with the humans.
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* ''Rocket Ship Galileo'' by Creator/RobertAHeinlein. The RetroRocket the protagonists modify for ATripToTheMoon was previously used for carrying international mail.

* ''Rocket Ship Galileo'' by Creator/RobertAHeinlein. The RetroRocket the protagonists modify for a TripToTheMoon was previously used for carrying international mail.

* One of the first (some would say ''the'' first) civilian uses of airplanes was carrying mail from city to city. This was at its peak in the 1920s and 1930s; it declined due to companies scamming the government due to poor oversight, and a large number of military airmen dying in plane crashes in poor winter weather when the US Army tried to take over all air mail responsibilities while lacking in sufficient experience in night time and winter operations, as well as poorly equipped aircraft and insufficient manning, due to Great Depression-related budget cuts.