But alas, before you get too excited, we didn't smuggle this picture out of a high security, top secret underground testing laboratory. Nor did we spot it hovering mysteriously over Area 51. It's a toy ... or maybe Royal Mail has invented a way of shrinking posties too ...
Below the belt: Royal Mail delivers new toy but no post
Has Royal Mail finally come up with a solution to its delivery problems? What with the axing of the night mail trains and its failure to meet delivery targets, this could just be the answer. Think how fast a postie could jet round his beat in one of these! They could fly low and throw the mail out as they passed, or swoop down and hover by the nation's letterboxes.