​The United States Postal Service is always complaining about how they get ignored for email and UPS and FedEx. It’s why they raise prices on stamps every day, and are very, very surly when you do actually need to mail something. But is the problem really the rise of electronic mail, or is it the fact that there’s aren’t any mail-away action figures anymore?!

Probably the former, actually, but mail-away action used to be an important part of every young nerd’s life. Before build-a-figures were a twinkle in a greedy toy executive’s eye, the best way to ensure kids bought lots and lots of your toys was to have them collect proof-of-purchase seasl, and mail them off in return for another action figure! It was like a free toy, if you ignored all the money you’d already spent, and the waiting by the mailbox was delicious agony for many children. Of course, not all mail-away action figures are created equal, and there’s probably a few crates of unsent toys collecting dust in some Rhode Island warehouse. Here are five mail-away figures that had us hugging the postman when he delivered them… and five that had us kicking his shins.

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