Family delivers perfectly wholesome prank to their mail carrier

The mailman had no idea what was coming.
 By 
Brian Koerber
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A day in the life of a mail carrier may seem boring to some, but that all depends on who they're delivering mail to.

A family took advantage of April Fools' Day this year by pranking their unsuspecting mail carrier with an extremely long letter, which may be the simplest and most wholesome prank to ever occur.

Comedian Billy Kelly of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania and his wife decided to prank their unsuspecting mail carrier by creating a ridiculously long letter, and leaving it slightly hanging out of their mail slot as if it were normal outgoing mail. When the mailman attempted to pull the letter out of the door, he found himself pulling a letter that was a few feet long.

Obviously, if you decide to prank someone you want to see it happen in real time, so the Kelly couple hid inside their car to watch the whole thing go down.

At the end of the note, the Kellys wrote "April Fools," just in case he wasn't already well aware.

If you're going to prank your mail carrier, just make sure it's as innocent as this one.

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Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.

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