POstables, the moment you have been waiting for is finally here: Signed, Sealed, Delivered is back with a new movie. Signed, Sealed, Delievered: A Tale of Three Letters will premiere this weekend on Hallmark Mystery (the network formerly known as Hallmark Movies and Mysteries).
“The Postal Detectives at the Dead Letter Office return to wrap up the Great Mailbox Breach of 2017—and some personal business as well,” reads a promotion on Hallmark Mystery’s Facebook page.
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: A Tale of Three Letters
Fans have waited three years for a new installation in Hallmark’s longest-running mystery series. The last movie to premiere, Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made (2021), saw Shane (Kristin Booth) and Oliver (Eric Mabius) tie the knot with help from Rita (Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe) and Norman (Geoff Gustafson).
In Signed, Sealed, Delivered: A Tale of Three Letters, the group is asked to find the intended recipients of three dead letters. But the POstables are distracted by their own problems. Shane and Oliver grapple with finding their footing as a married couple. Rita is anxious to start a family but Norman finds himself distracted.
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Signed, Sealed, Delivered first came to the small screen in 2013 as a television series. Written by Martha Williamson — who also created the Touched by an Angel series — the show followed four employees of the United States Postal Service’s Dead Letter Office.
Oliver (played by Eric Mabius), Shane (played by Kristin Booth), Rita (played by Crystal Lowe), and Norman (played by Geoff Gustafson) were tasked with tracking down intended recipients of undeliverable mail.
After a successful first season, the show was changed from a 1-hour episode format to a 2-hour film format. Twelve films were released over the next seven years:
Signed, Sealed, Delivered For Christmas (2014)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: From Paris With Love (2015)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Truth Be Told (2015)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Impossible Dream (2015)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: From the Heart (2016)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: One in a Million (2016)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Lost Without You (2016)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Higher Ground (2017)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again (2017)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Road Less Travelled (2018)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: To the Altar (2018)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made (2021)
We’re waiting….
Fans were left hanging following the premiere of The Vows We Have Made in 2021. For years, Hallmark would not say if a new movie would be made in the series. POstables began a campaign to raise awareness, sending then-CEO Wonya Lucas letters and emails urging her to keep the series going.
Lucas acknowledged their efforts without revealing if a new movie was coming.
During a red carpet interview at a 2023 ceremony for the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame, Lucas told The Sun that the network was working on a comeback for Signed, Sealed, Delivered.
“We’re pretty excited about that,” she said and added, “I will tell you, the POstables are alive and well. They send me notes, they send me pictures, every time I go to my office, they’re there….So, we are really listening to our fans and leaning into the fandom.”
Series star Eric Mabius also mentioned something during a 2023 interview with Australia’s Today Extra. When he was asked if there was a new project he was working on, he replied, “There is, and what a wonderful project.”
New movie
In March 2024, Hallmark finally announced that a new movie was in the works. Some fans were skeptical at first but when the stars themselves began posting on social media from the set of the film.
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