
After that, the cutout never returned to Greg. Susan had mailed it to her cousin Stacey in Seattle, who put him in a storage of newspapers and magazines, because she is always hoarding stuff like newspapers and magazines. Susan Heffley takes a cutout with herself to take photos of it, but Greg doesn't like them. In the second grade Greg Heffley and his class each got a paper cut-out of him, which they had to color and send to a relative who lives far away and they have to take a photo of him in front of something.

He appears in The Long Haul and was mentioned in The Meltdown.

Flat Stanley is a character from a real-life novel who got crushed with a bulletin board at night making him thin as paper which allow him to fold himself, mail himself and have his brother fly him as a kite.
