# Post Office employees in film and TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 26, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-office-employees-in-film-and-tv/833099 "2019-04-26T21:51:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-office-employees-in-film-and-tv/833099/21 "2019-05-06T00:28:07Z")
I’ve got two. In “Hollywood Shuffle,” Robert Townsend is going quietly insane trying to make it in the movies. All the while, as he complains about not being able to get work, his grandmother always retorts with “There’s work at the Post Office!” The final scene has him doing a commercial for the Post Office. 😃 Next, on the children’s program “The Big Comfy Couch” the mail is delivered every day by a friendly fellow named Major Bedhead. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-office-employees-in-film-and-tv/833099/22 "2019-05-06T01:20:50Z")
Stan Lee as Willie Lumpkin, mail carrier to the Baxter Building, headquarters of the Fantastic Four, 2005. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-office-employees-in-film-and-tv/833099/23 "2019-05-06T01:30:19Z")
Come to think of it, I’m pretty sure there are a couple of porn movies where a postman delivering a package is important to the story. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-office-employees-in-film-and-tv/833099/24 "2019-05-06T21:02:32Z")
A surprising omission from the thread so far - [Postman Pat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman_Pat). ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-office-employees-in-film-and-tv/833099/25 "2019-05-06T21:11:15Z")
There is a current TV show called “The Inspectors” that is all about postal inspectors. I’ve seen it once. I think it is on CBS on their weekend morning edutainment programming. But it is a scripted show, like Law and Order for the USPS. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-office-employees-in-film-and-tv/833099/26 "2019-05-06T21:18:20Z")
Ed Helms appeared as a postal inspector in a few episodes of Brooklyn Nine-nine ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-office-employees-in-film-and-tv/833099/27 "2019-05-06T21:56:19Z")
[The Blues Brothers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLbPv6yIvBU). ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-office-employees-in-film-and-tv/833099/28 "2019-05-06T22:50:51Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > **OP:** What a completely bizarre question. There’s actually a reason for the question, but I have struck out… I go to my local post office a lot - I have a side business selling books by mail - and have gotten to know most of the people working the front. One is a sweetheart and a good friend, one is a really nice person… And one strikes me as a stereotypical “postal clerk”. To the point that I feel like I’ve seen him as a type in some show or other. The closest I could come to describing him right now, is Cliff Claven’s personality minus the trivia buff aspect. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-office-employees-in-film-and-tv/833099/29 "2019-05-06T23:31:17Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > The closest I could come to describing him right now, is Cliff Claven’s personality minus the trivia buff aspect. You mean, like in _ **Firefox** _? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-office-employees-in-film-and-tv/833099/30 "2019-05-07T00:29:42Z")
_Post Office Investigator_ (1949) - Dimbulb postman becomes involved in a theft of rare stamps. _Jour de fête_ (1949) - During a once-a-year fair, the inhabitants of a small French town make fun of the postman (Jacques Tati). _Side Street_ (1950) - Mailman (Farley Granger) shows exceptionally bad judgement and soon regrets it. _Mr. Sycamore_ (1975) - Postman (Jason Robards) wants to be a tree and is taken to the loony bin. _Postman Blues_ (1997) - A (Japanese) postman is mistaken for a dangerous criminal. And of course… _Mail Dog_ (1947) - Disney short with Pluto in the title role. Hijinx ensue. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-office-employees-in-film-and-tv/833099/31 "2019-05-07T04:08:29Z")
At the start of _ **Buddy, Buddy** _, the hit man (Walter Matthau) disguises himself as a mail carrier. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-office-employees-in-film-and-tv/833099/32 "2019-05-07T13:43:48Z")
According to Men In Black II, aside from the retired Agent K, pretty much all postal employees are aliens… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-office-employees-in-film-and-tv/833099.md?page=1)