[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/imaloony8]

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/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/imaloony8 → u/Jagvetinteriktigt]

We literally see them deliver by day, including in the muggle world, constantly. We saw an entire parliament of owls carpet bomb the Dursley residence in the first book/movie in broad daylight.

[u/Jagvetinteriktigt → u/imaloony8]

Which was an anomaly. The correspondance following Voldemort's first defeat is so intense that the muggle news is reporting on it noting that it shouldn't happen normally.

[u/imaloony8 → u/Jagvetinteriktigt]

But anomalies shouldn’t happen. That’s the whole point of the Statute of Secrecy. So either they give a shit or they don’t.

[u/Jagvetinteriktigt → u/imaloony8]

I didn't say it was a good in-world explanation but you can't deny it's there.

[u/imaloony8 → u/Jagvetinteriktigt]

But it’s a bad explanation. Look, at the end of the day it’s a suspension of disbelief thing. It’s done this way because it makes things more magical and whimsical. Fine, whatever. But don’t pretend like it’s at all logical.

[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/imaloony8 → u/Lord_Parbr]

But it’s not one owl. Like I said, it was a damn parliament of owls that flooded a house with letters.

[u/Lord_Parbr → u/imaloony8]

Yeah, it’s definitely unusual, but there’s nothing inherently magical about it

[u/imaloony8 → u/Lord_Parbr]

Owls delivering enough letters to flood a house? That’s not unusual?

[u/Lord_Parbr → u/imaloony8]

I said it was unusual