Synopsis:
Donald is a mailman during a winter blizzard and the nephews are training for JW merit badges. They also rescue Donald from the wrath of Daisy.

Comments:
As you are about to see from this page Barks placed Donald as a messenger in several of his stories, but this one - in which he performs as an ordinary mailman - is arguably one of the most memorable. Not least because of the fact that the normally superficial and incompetent Donald finally has landed a job which he manages with flying colours; he is utterly conscious of what is expected of him, and he manages to fulfill his tasks despite having to overcome overwhelming odds against him.

Synopsis:
Donald has a postal route in an incredibly difficult area to travel in, but luck smiles upon him one day as he discovers the advantages of a one-man helicopter...

Comments:
Again, Donald does a good job, this time delivering mail from his own red car. Difference to the story above is, that when he switches means of transport to a helicopter things start to go wrong.
This was also the case in WDCS174 'Ice Boat Mail', in which Donald started out hauling mail across a frozen lake in his self-constructed ice boat. Again, he must face up to the fact that a mailman's job is not a bed of roses...

Synopsis:
Donald and the nephews are guests on a dude ranch and they decide to revive the old Pony Express just for fun. But the game becomes serious!

Comments:
Donald gets to be the mail carrier between two relay stations in order to reenact the old time feat of carrying mail swiftly across the Old West.
He also volunteered to participate in another special event in WDCS286 The Olympian Torch Bearer, in which he was to carry the symbolic Olympic torch from Goosetown to Duckburg.

Synopsis:
Donald and the nephews are telegram messenger boys and Donald makes sure that he gets all the easy jobs. But revenge is near!

Comments:
Telegrams were sometimes used by Barks as means to quickly get messages across to other characters. In this story the Duck family deliver telegrams throughout the story.
Several times we have witnessed Scrooge receiving a telegram with the alarming news that the Beagle Boys have escaped prison as in WDCS134 'The Anti-Beagle Cannon'. In another story, U$46 Lost Beneath the Sea, the delivery of telegrams was used as a running gag; messenger boys delivered telegrams to Scrooge during a world travel, and they used a variety of strange means of transport...

Synopsis:
The nephews are hired as messengers and they have to deliver a certain package within 20 minutes. But a lion stands in the way!!!

Comments:
Donald wishes to help his nephews with their job. They were hired as messengers to deliver a certain package, but this is not that easy. Now Donald has to pass a ferocious, guarding lion in order to make the delivery...
Occasionally, Barks used written messages of diverse kinds in his stories to trigger the plots. The S.O.S. message in U$08 'The Petrifying Stone-ray Machine' constitutes one of the more unusual, because it was never posted, it carried no indication of an addressee, and the messenger was a bottle!!!

Synopsis:
Scrooge takes over the job as postmaster in order to provide better service, but he has to deliver a letter to the planet Venus!!!

Comments:
After having received several letters not addressed to him, Scrooge decides to do something about it. After all, how hard can it be to deliver mail - even to Venus? But he happens to deliver the letter to Mars instead...

Synopsis:
Gyro has grown tired of inventing and he takes a job as a mailman. But the job requires a few inventions to be successful!

Comments:
Gyro starts out on his route in high spirits but he only manages to deliver one single letter, and this only happens because he, reluctantly, decides to make three inventions in order to be able to get on with his job.

Synopsis:
Scrooge wants to save money and he completes his banking business via a carrier pigeon. Until one day when it disappears with a cool million!

Comments:
For Scrooge this is the ideal way of sending a message, because the transport is free! But in this case the correspondence is a year underway, and that is a problem.
In WDCS139 'The Racing Pigeon' another pigeon was sent to deliver a distress note from Donald and Daisy who were shipwrecked, and in WDCS216 'The Frog Jumping Contest' Donald trains a bullfrog for a big jumping contest, but between practice sessions it also has time to deliver a distress note from the passengers of a stranded tugboat to authorities on land.

Synopsis:
Donald stays at the French Riviera where he is contacted by a sinister looking man. A major spy story unfolds...

Comments:
By definition spies are messengers - but of a special kind. They are ruthless persons devoted to an ideology or to money, and nothing is allowed to stand in their way. Barks made a number of spy stories, of which this one is the most direct.
He also used other means of getting ill-gotten messages through; in U$45 Isle of the Golden Geese and USA33 Horsing Around with History birds were used as spies, and in U$41 The Status Seeker and U$55 McDuck of Arabia clever gadgets did the job as messengers for dubious persons.

Synopsis:
An old zombie confuses Donald with Scrooge as he delivers a curse from his witch doctor. Donald and the nephews travel to Africa to get free of the curse.

Comments:
Bombie, who is the messenger, finally manages to deliver the curse after a whopping 70 years - to the wrong person!
But in terms of being long overdue this is nothing compared to one of the employees on Longhorn Tallgrass' ranch in U$23 Fabulous Tycoon, and old man with an extremely long beard, who had just finished crossing the property on horseback. The task was started by his grandfather...