Columbus, NM 88029

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. It was just another day in Columbus, but something strange started happening around the post office. A regular would arrive early every morning, wearing an old hat and carrying a mysterious package wrapped in brown paper. Finally, one morning, the regular showed up with a tiny parrot instead of his usual package. The postmaster asked curiously, ‘What’s the bird for?’ He replied, ‘Just a little messenger, I guess.’ And from that day on, whenever anyone received mail, they’d hear a faint squawk from above—‘You’ve got mail!’

2. A package arrived one morning with no return address or sender’s name. The delivery driver shrugged and placed it on the counter, remarking that ‘maybe someone forgot to write their own name.’ Since then, every weekday at exactly 3 PM, an identical unmarked package appears—never claimed, never opened. One day, a regular customer joked, ‘Maybe we should open it and see what everyone’s been missing!’ Suddenly, out popped dozens of freshly baked cookies wrapped in plain brown paper. Everyone laughed, realizing they’d been enjoying free treats for weeks without noticing.

3. A little boy from town kept noticing an old mailbox seemed to blink on and off at night. No one else could see it, though. One day, a delivery driver noticed the kid staring intently at the mailbox. ‘Hey,’ he said, ‘you’re seeing things that aren’t there.’ The boy replied confidently, ‘No, sir, I’m just waiting for Santa’s letterbox to light up again!’ Everyone laughed, and from then on, the whole town started watching for the mysterious blinking too—just in case.}

4. A delivery driver pulled up to the post office in Columbus one afternoon and muttered under his breath, ‘This place is never boring.’ Little did he know how right he would be. As he opened the door, a stray cat jumped out, startling him so much that he dropped several packages. A neighbor walking by stopped to help, commenting, 'Welcome to Columbus—home of the slowest mail but the fastest cats!'