Bristol Street Post Office

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. A regular customer entered Bristol Street Post Office one morning and exclaimed, 'I just saw the strangest thing!' The postal clerk raised an eyebrow, curious. ‘While I was waiting,’ the man continued, ‘this delivery driver comes in, completely soaked from head to toe. He’s dripping water everywhere!’ The clerk laughed, shaking his head. ‘He says he got caught in a sudden downpour outside. But then, as we’re talking, another guy walks in—also drenched—and starts helping him dry off with a towel.’ A neighbor chimed in, smiling, ‘It turns out they were both trying to get into the same post office!’

2. A delivery driver pulled up to Bristol Street Post Office one afternoon with an unusual package. As he approached the counter, the postal clerk asked, ‘What’s in that box?’ The driver replied, ‘It’s a secret mission from the Pentagon.’ The clerk raised an eyebrow but nodded discreetly. Later that evening, while closing up shop, she found a note stuck inside her desk drawer: 'Thanks for your help today. Next time you see a package marked TOP SECRET, just smile and say “delivered.”'

3. One day, while a delivery driver was unloading packages at Bristol Street Post Office, he noticed a mysterious note taped inside the door. It read: ‘Today is not Monday.’ Everyone laughed it off until strange things started happening on Tuesdays. Soon enough, everyone in town began checking their calendars twice daily—just in case Tuesday really wasn’t Tuesday. One particularly forgetful neighbor even missed his weekly bridge game because he thought it was Wednesday already. In the end, the whole thing turned out to be a prank by an overeager new employee who wanted to see if anyone would fall for such silliness. The note? Just a practical joke left behind during a busy shift.

4. One autumn morning, a neighbor walked into Bristol Street Post Office and asked curiously, ‘Why does every package here seem heavier than it should be?’ The postmaster smiled mysteriously and replied, 'Ah, that's because every letter carries a little piece of our town's history.' The neighbor shrugged it off until one day he received an unexpectedly heavy birthday card from his long-lost cousin—who lived miles away. Turns out, everyone in Bristol had signed their good wishes inside.