Living just outside of Ponyville, the gray little mare, Auto Mail crafts mechanical creatures: big and small; selling them to any Pony who wants one, or giving the diminutive once off as gifts to Fillies and Colts.
I just recently started to write stories directly towards the FiM actively, though I have been writing for years, publishing numerous stories at Mibba and the eventual pony story, as far as to the MLP