rdfs:comment | - Fiction has a tendency to treat the mailman as an unstoppable force. Come downpour, blizzard, flood, end of the world, or big, friendly dogs, your mail will still be delivered. Sometimes this is even exaggerated to the point where the mailman will find you and deliver the letter no matter where you are in the world. Keep in mind that this is not merely about unstoppable characters who happen to be mailmen. This is about mailmen who display impossible persistence in the process of delivering the mail. Examples of Unstoppable Mailman include:
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abstract | - Fiction has a tendency to treat the mailman as an unstoppable force. Come downpour, blizzard, flood, end of the world, or big, friendly dogs, your mail will still be delivered. Sometimes this is even exaggerated to the point where the mailman will find you and deliver the letter no matter where you are in the world. Keep in mind that this is not merely about unstoppable characters who happen to be mailmen. This is about mailmen who display impossible persistence in the process of delivering the mail. The source of the page quote itself is nearly a direct quotation from the description of the Persian messenger system in The Histories of Herodotus written between 450 and 420 BC. Compare the Non-Giving-Up-School Guy who is ridiculously persistent in giving you an education rather than delivering your mail, the Determinator who is merely ridiculously persistent in general, and the Implacable Man who is just not playing fair. See also: Courier. Examples of Unstoppable Mailman include:
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