What is a mail girl? In simple terms she’s a girl who is paid to run naked around a busy office delivering the internal mail. Sure, email still exists as does a dozen other systems for delivering the mail. But given the choice, would you rather have the latest joke delivered to your inbox, or by a willing, naked, compliant girl who’s being paid to deliver more than just the mail? Once she’d delivered she’s yours until you choose to release her . . . .
This book grew out a chance conversation with a fellow author, he was looking for contributions to an anthology he was putting together based on the mail girl theme.
At the time I’d almost stopped writing and had only published one short in almost 18 months, this gave me the motivation to return to writing.
I’d touched on the subject of mail girls before in passing in a short story, but this got my juices following. Once again I’d just been back to San Francisco for a holiday (this was post-COVID) and I was shocked, gone was the vibrancy, the life, the excitement. Instead there were hundreds of tent cities for the homeless, people sleeping on the streets and openly shooting up three blocks from city hall. My mind went racing, what would people do to survive in a situation like this? My contribution to the anthology was called ‘Mail Girls : Cross Town’.
After the anthology was complete my mind came back to Mail Girls again, how would a program start? How would it end? What lengths would people go to, what would the impact be on not only the naked delivery girls, but also on the employees and their families? Thus was ‘The Mail Girl Program’ born.
Recently promoted to Junior Vice President of the once great IT giant End-trust systems Sophia knows that they have a problem - the economy is on it's knees and the company is failing, it needs a way to decrease costs and become an employer of choice for graduates, rather than a place to see out your career as you head to retirement.
On a business trip to Japan Sophia sees something that she knows could transform the company, a rival organization that has started a Mail Girl program. Attractive, young girls are paid to run round the building naked, delivering mail. Sophia's mind goes into overdrive, thinking about how this could be used to save End-trust.
Once back in America she implements her own version of a Mail Girl system, the aim of the program is to provide entertainment for employees and lower costs for the company, and just like the Mail Girls, the program delivers, but at what cost?
The book explores how the program affects the employees of the company, from the graduate hire who can't believe his luck, to the man who was going to resign but has second thoughts now there are naked women running in the office, and the long serving staff member who is offended at the very concept.
Of course, no-one considers how the girls themselves feel, and no one asks. Why would they? Mail Girls are not allowed to speak, all they need to do is to run mail and service the members of staff that are allowed to wear clothes.
Will she be the saviour of the company or will Sophia regret the day she suggested the Mail Girl idea to her superiors?
Mail girl 17's day was due to end at six pm, but she got one last call, just before the end of her shift. The last, run a letter from the midtown office to the downtown office. This means running naked, outside in the cold dark, exposed to the elements and the denizens of the night, the poor, the homeless, people who would abuse her rather than pity or help a defenceless naked girl alone in the night, alone in the world. But 17 had no choice, she signed up for this.
Note, if you buy a paperback copy of ‘Mail Girls, the complete program’ this story is included.
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