The UPS Store

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One morning, while browsing through boxes in The UPS Store, a regular found an old, dusty telegram addressed to ‘Mr. John Smith, care of The UPS Store.’ Curious neighbors started gathering around, and soon enough, everyone was waiting for the mysterious sender to appear. Finally, after days of anticipation, a gruff delivery driver arrived with a large envelope marked ‘urgent’. Everyone held their breath as he opened it—inside was just a crumpled note saying, ‘Dear Mr. Smith, could you please sign here? Yours truly, The UPS Store.’

2. While checking packages one afternoon, a delivery driver noticed something strange: every time he signed for a package from ‘Mr. Johnson,’ the address on the receipt always seemed to be different. Curious, the driver mentioned it to his colleague, who laughed and said, ‘Oh, that’s Mr. Johnson down the street—always sending packages to himself!’ The mystery solved, they both shook their heads and went back to sorting mail with a smile.

3. While dropping off a package one rainy day, a delivery driver wondered aloud: ‘Who keeps leaving these mysterious packages here?’ As he peered inside, he saw only neatly wrapped boxes with no return addresses—each labeled simply with a different neighborhood street name. Smiling, he realized someone must be playing a prank on him, leaving packages for nonexistent neighbors. Turning around, he noticed a familiar face grinning from behind the counter: 'Aren’t you forgetting something?' asked the smiling employee.

4. At closing time, the voice over the intercom announced with a straight face: 'Please be advised that tomorrow we will be operating on Mars time.' Next morning, everyone arrived puzzled but curious. A delivery driver asked, ‘How does that even work?’ The manager replied calmly, ‘Just follow your package’s Martian schedule.’ And so they did—until an annoyed customer exclaimed, ‘This is ridiculous!’ To which the owner smiled and said, ‘Welcome to Earth time, where everything happens yesterday or never.’