About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. One morning, a delivery driver grumbled under his breath as he approached Oxford Road Post Office: 'Why does it always rain on me today?' Suddenly, the door swung open without anyone inside. The delivery driver peered inside curiously and found an old calendar stuck to the wall with a note: ‘When it rains, come in for a cup of tea.’ He smiled, shook his head, and walked into the empty post office, where a warm kettle was already whistling.
2. One day, an elderly gentleman entered the Oxford Road Post Office with a mysterious package wrapped in brown paper and sealed with twine. As he approached the counter, the clerk announced over the intercom: ‘Attention, everyone—we have a new customer who insists on paying for everything in gold coins!’ The postmaster eyed him suspiciously but took the first coin. To his surprise, it was a solid twenty-carat gold sovereign. Word spread quickly, and soon people from all over Manchester were lining up to pay their bills in gold. The old man never returned, leaving behind only a note on the counter: 'Just testing your honesty.'
3. Late one night, a postal worker heard a strange humming coming from the old Oxford Road Post Office basement. Curious, he followed the sound down the dusty stairs and found an ancient gramophone playing a scratched vinyl record. As he approached, the hum grew louder—turning out to be nothing more than a local DJ testing his new equipment. The next morning, everyone in town was talking about how the postman had danced all night to some vintage tunes.
4. Have you ever noticed how quiet it gets in the Oxford Road Post Office when no one's around? One afternoon, a curious customer asked the clerk if they could hear that too. The clerk smiled and nodded, replying with a twinkle in their eye, 'Oh yes, it's the sound of silence itself.' Just then, an envelope dropped from above, causing both of them to jump. Turns out, it was just another delivery driver's hat trick—an old joke among the staff.