A bear happily spends a busy day delivering letters and packages, and the reader is invited to guess the jobs of the bears he sees around town.

Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. Nothing else, just a list of names on a single sheet of paper. None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on the list. They dismiss it as junk mail, a fluke - until very, very bad things begin happening to people on the list. First, a well-liked old man is drowned on a beach in the small town of Kennewick, Maine. Then, a father is shot in the back while running through...

When the dead body of fabric-shop owner Daisy Harmon is found after a massive storm, postmistress Cassie Miller is asked by Daisy's widowed husband to find the truth before someone else is swept away by a killer.

Elmo gets his Sesame Street friends to contribute to a letter Elmo is writing to Abby Cadabby.

Simple text and illustrations describe a package as it makes its way across country, from the time it is wrapped and addressed until it is delivered and opened.