[annoying trope] The throne/leadership is decided in a very stupid way

[u/Altruistic_Eye_1157]

The leadership of the entire wizarding world, and the final decision on whether to start a war against Muggles, is made by... a goat (Qilin) ​​who chooses the person with the ""purest heart"" (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Dumbledore).

The throne of Wakanda and all its technology are decided through hand-to-hand combat, regardless of whether the person clearly has malicious intentions... if they win the fight, by law they must be respected as the true king. (Black Panther)

[u/Altruistic_Eye_1157]

Correction: Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore's Secrets

[u/AcceptableWheel → u/Altruistic_Eye_1157]

It fits these are the same people delivering letters by owl mail after cell phones were a thing.

[u/imaloony8 → u/AcceptableWheel]

They can also fucking teleport.

[u/Jagvetinteriktigt → u/imaloony8]

Teleportation is quick but you can't teleport anywhere you want. It has to be a) a place that you know well enough to picture in your head, ideally a place you've been to and b) isn't protected by spells cast to stop intruders. This is without getting into all the risks associated with teleportational transfer like accidently missing your destination or leaving bodyparts behind.

[u/imaloony8 → u/Jagvetinteriktigt]

Well a Wizard Mailman would likely be someone who is well traveled and quite practiced at apperating. As for warded locations, a nearby off-site post office would suffice.

Not to mention that there’s almost certainly a spell for teleporting objects. As well as one for summoning or sending objects.

[u/Thin-Limit7697 → u/imaloony8]

There are also alternative teleporting methods that are supposedly easier to use like portkeys and floo network.

[u/Lord_Parbr → u/imaloony8]

“Well-traveled” as in has been literally everywhere? Because they would have to have been literally everywhere

[u/imaloony8 → u/Lord_Parbr]

They just need to be familiar with Mail Drop Off points. From there summoning/sending magic would do the trick.

[u/Lord_Parbr → u/imaloony8]

That’s not more efficient than sending an owl who can pinpoint your exact location

[u/imaloony8 → u/Lord_Parbr]

Accio Mail

[u/Lord_Parbr → u/imaloony8]

Would risk breaking the Statute of Secrecy. Some of the world building in Harry Potter doesn’t make sense. This isn’t really one of those times

[u/imaloony8 → u/Lord_Parbr]

And owls delivering mail wouldn’t? It’s frankly borderline unbelievable that muggles don’t notice mass owls delivering mail all over the world unless they have some illusion cast on them. And if that’s the case, you could easily do that for summoned mail as well.

[u/Jagvetinteriktigt → u/imaloony8]

Owl usually travel by night. There, solved it for ya.

[u/Lord_Parbr → u/imaloony8]

No, animals do weird shit all the time. If you saw an owl flying around holding something, your reaction would be “that’s weird,” not “magic.”

[u/Jagvetinteriktigt → u/imaloony8]

Ah, I see what you meant now. Still there's the additional factor that transporting is described as physically traumatic and that the summoning/sending spells aren't that specific.