Columbus Post Office

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At night, when the post office doors closed and the last mail truck left, an old cat would appear on the steps. It always sat in the same spot, watching as if guarding something. No one knew where it came from or why it stayed. One evening, a delivery driver noticed the cat was missing its usual perch. Curious, he peeked inside and found the old feline sound asleep on top of a stack of letters. The next day, everyone joked that maybe the cat was just waiting for his nap break too.

2. At night, after hours, an envelope with no return address would slide under the door of the Columbus Post Office. A delivery driver noticed it first, thinking it might be theirs, but each morning another envelope appeared in its place. Finally, one day a delivery driver opened the envelope and found only a note inside: ‘Forgot my keys again.’ Turned out, a neighbor had been leaving them there every evening.

3. At night, when the post office doors closed and the last mail truck left, a regular noticed something strange: every week, exactly on Thursday, a package addressed to ‘Santa Claus’ arrived without any return address. One day, a delivery driver joked that maybe Santa was using UPS instead. The next Thursday, two packages arrived—one for Santa, and another for ‘UPS.’ Since then, everyone in town waits eagerly each Thursday, laughing as they watch the postmaster open the mysterious packages filled with nothing but wrapped candy canes.

4. At night, when the post office doors closed and the last mail truck left, a regular heard a familiar voice whispering his name from behind the counter. The regular turned around sharply, but there was no one there. Then he noticed an envelope with his name on it, sitting innocently on the counter. He picked it up—it contained a note reading: ‘Don’t worry, I’m just the late-night shift of your friendly neighborhood postman.’