You wouldn’t think that much goes down at the post office or that much ever could. After all it’s where mail gets shipped in and shipped out in mass quantities by people who are constantly underrated and underappreciated and….well, that kind of opens things up a little. Movies have a way of making anything seem just a little more exciting by using anything and everything as a prop, including locations. The post office is a place you generally don’t visit that often unless you’re in the business of shipping and receiving goods, but in the movies it tends to be a place where things do tend to happen. This then makes it a very interesting place whether it’s used as a main part of the story, a backdrop, or a plot device that furthers the entire story. In some cases the very idea of the post office has been used as a means of hope for those that need it.
It’s not just about the mail you know.
5. Men In Black II
Now who in the world could have guessed that Agent K would be a postal worker? Considering his origin from the first movie though he was just a dumb kid on a back country road when he was picked up by the MIB and given a job. So it’s understandable that he might not have had much to go back to after so long, but working in a post office obviously was not what people expected.
4. 1408
Mike Enslin thought he was all the way out of room 1408. He was so convinced that he’d finally left the room behind, and then without warning or explanation the postal workers started tearing the scene around him to bits, and he was back in 1408. Talk about a mind trip. Seriously I’ve looked at post offices differently since this movie, of course being a writer I tend to look at a lot of venues differently. Sometimes it pays to touch the wall to make sure it’s real.
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Maybe there’s a Grinch working postal offices across the nation that are hired to send out junk mail on a daily basis. It would make sense wouldn’t it? You know that mail you get in your box and just grimace because it’s of no use to you? Maybe the Grinch put it there just to ruin your day a little. I mean really, who gives out a jury duty notice that close to Christmas?
2. The Postman
It’s not shown in the trailer and I couldn’t find a clip but after the original post office is burned to the ground Ford Lincoln Mercury and the eager postal workers left behind build their own system and it actually rivals the post office that was put into place before the fall of the world. The only thing they need at that point is to learn how to spell the word ‘tyranny’.
1. Secret Window
Once again this one isn’t in the trailer but it’s still a pivotal scene since it continues to show the madness of Mort Rainey as when he’s leaving the postal worker is heard to say “I saw what you did”. It turns out that most of this line was in Mort’s head, when what she really said was quite different.
The post office can be important too.
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