Stan does his best to recover a post-card, which he has forgotten to stamp. He attempts the recovery after hearing a remark by a postal inspector that the absence of the stamp makes the card a criminal offense for the sender. In the course of his struggles he swims through "oceans" of mail, rides up and down chutes, gets tied up in a mail bag and finally finds himself locked in a delivery truck with two thieves.
Acting
Laurel's terrified eye-rolls are silent-era perfection.
Direction
Jeske turns a mailroom into an existential hellscape.
Director
George Jeske
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of Laurel's last solo shorts before he teamed with Oliver Hardy later in 1927.
The film satirizes the expanding U.S. postal bureaucracy of the 1920s, when mail fraud laws were aggressively enforced.
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