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A vagrant whom roams the post apocalyptic United States arrives in a village to perform a Shakespearian play in exchange for food. But, The Holonists, an army of rogue gunmen led by the evil General Bethlehem arrives to recruit villagers and the vagrant is captured and forced to join the Holonists against his will. The vagrant escapes and during a rainstorm, he stumbles upon a jeep and uses it for shelter. The vagrant dons the uniform of the skeleton of a dead mailman and takes his bag of mail and pretends to be a mailman so he can con towns for food and shelter and makes up a big lie that the American government has been rebuilt and reorganized and is working on restoring the United States. Like wildfire, the vagrant's lie spreads across the post apocalyptic United States and the vagrant's lies brings hope to the survivors, General Bethlehem soon learns about this and the so-called "Postman" and the made up restored American government threatens him and his power and General Bethlehem sets out to crush the vagrant and end his influence on the survivors as the vagrant has unwittingly become a key figure in rebuilding civilization and putting an end to General Bethlehem's cruelty and tyranny.

Aside from condensing storylines, the film also eliminates a number of characters and science fiction elements from the story. A significant plotline in the book is the efforts of scientists at Corvallis, Oregon to use an artificially intelligent supercomputer to help rebuild society. Similarly, in the book the leaders of the Holnists are super soldiers who were experimented on by the military in order to augment their strength and speed. The film also eliminates the "Squire of Sugarloaf" a leader of a local community who the Postman tries to enlist to help in the fight against the Holnists

1998. 15 years earlier. The film is set in 2013.

No. Days of Our Lives and Monday Night Football was in The Postman's mind.

Michael had the viral disease Mumps when he was 12 years old, which is a common childhood disease but in rare cases can cause permanent loss of fertility in adult males.

Yes. Lily Costner is Irene March's granddaughter Lily. Joe Costner is the Letter Boy, whom The Postman takes his letter, when riding past his house and Annie Costner is Ponytail, the US postal service carrier, whom finds The Postman and Abby and brings them to the US postal service HQ.