Cary Post Office

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. A few years ago, every morning around closing time, an old man would appear in front of Cary Post Office with a large shopping cart filled with packages. No one knew who he was or where he got them from, but soon everyone started calling him ‘the Package Whisperer.’ One day, a delivery driver noticed that some packages were missing from the cart. Turned out, the Package Whisperer had been secretly delivering them to neighbors’ doors while they waited for their own mail. When asked why, he simply smiled and said, 'Sometimes, it’s nice to spread a little joy.' Ever since then, whenever someone received unexpected goodies, they’d whisper, ‘Must be the Package Whisperer again.’

2. Late one night, as the postal worker locked up Cary Post Office, he heard something strange—a soft humming coming from inside the empty building. Curious, he peered through the window and saw a small envelope dancing across the counter. Thinking it was just his imagination playing tricks, he went home. But every night after that, the same thing happened—an invisible hand delivering mail. Eventually, the townsfolk started leaving their letters outside the door with a note: ‘Dear Ghost Mailman, please deliver our packages!’

3. One day after school, little Sarah walked past the Cary Post Office and noticed something odd: every afternoon, right on the hour, a stray cat would leap onto the mailboxes and send letters flying into the air. Finally, someone asked the old postmaster if he knew anything about it. He smiled and said, ‘Oh, that’s just Joe, our resident mailbox jumper. Every afternoon, he gets bored and likes to play with the letters.’ The next day, when Sarah returned, she saw Joe perched on top of a mailbox again—this time holding a letter in his paws, pretending to deliver it himself.

4. Have you ever wondered why packages always seem to disappear from the Cary Post Office just before holidays? No one knows for sure, but some say it’s because of a mischievous delivery driver who enjoys a little Christmas fun. Some even claim that on especially busy days, he teams up with a nosy neighbor who loves to spy through her window and together they create a secret stash of undelivered gifts in her basement. But don’t worry—come January, everything mysteriously reappears, much to everyone’s surprise and delight.