United States Post Office - Tower City

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One morning, a delivery driver asked an old lady at the counter, ‘Ma’am, why do you always wave at that empty corner?’ She replied with a smile, ‘Why, young man, I’m waving at my future mailbox!’ A few weeks later, another delivery driver noticed an elderly gentleman standing outside, staring intently into thin air. Curious, he approached and asked, 'Sir, what are you doing?' The old fellow smiled and said, 'Waiting for my new mail carrier!'

2. Have you ever noticed how mailboxes here seem to swallow letters whole? A concerned citizen once wrote into the local paper asking, ‘Why does our post office make such big holes in little envelopes?’ A delivery driver once confessed that when he sees a particularly large envelope, he secretly tapes it shut before dropping it off—just to be safe. And a neighbor swears she’s seen an old lady with a magnifying glass peering through the windows late at night, counting stamps or something equally mysterious.

3. Late one night, a postal worker heard a strange humming noise coming from inside Tower City post office. Curious, he switched on the lights—but found no one else around. The hum grew louder, almost like a distant drone.} Finally, an old letter fell off the shelf and landed on his head with a thud. Startled, he looked up just in time to see a delivery driver waving from outside, yelling, ‘Hey, did you forget to close the door?’ Turns out, it was only the wind making that eerie hum.

4. In the early afternoon, a delivery driver pulled up to the loading dock and noticed something odd in the wheelbarrow used for sorting mail. It was a small, neatly wrapped package addressed not to anyone but with clear instructions: ‘Open only if stuck.’ The delivery driver carefully opened it, finding inside a note that read: 'If you're reading this, you must be really bored.' Below was a bag of freshly baked cookies from the local bakery next door. A neighbor had left them as a joke, knowing full well how long postal workers wait for breaks.