Downtown Phoenix Post Office

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One morning, a delivery driver arrived early to the Downtown Phoenix Post Office and noticed an unusual note taped to the door. It read: ‘Today is mail day for ghost letters only.’ Curious, he opened the door cautiously. Inside, everything was eerily quiet—except for a small envelope floating gently towards him. The delivery driver picked it up, and as soon as his fingers touched the paper, he felt a chill run down his spine. Written on the front were just two words: 'Happy Halloween!'

2. A regular customer entered the Downtown Phoenix Post Office one day, muttering under his breath, ‘I swear I saw that stamp move.’ The clerk looked up from her desk and asked with a smile, ‘Sir, are you sure it wasn’t just your imagination?’ The man shrugged and said, ‘Maybe so,’ as he walked out whistling. A few minutes later, an excited delivery driver rushed in, yelling, ‘Hey, did anyone see that stamp move?!’

3. At dawn, when most postal workers were still stretching in their beds, an old man walked into the Downtown Phoenix Post Office carrying a mysterious package wrapped in brown paper. As he approached the counter, the clerk asked him curiously, ‘What’s inside that package, sir?’ The old man replied with a twinkle in his eye, ‘Just some letters from my past.’ Turns out it was his annual collection of vintage postcards—sent every year on the same day since 1982. The whole place erupted in laughter and cheers as everyone joined in the tradition of opening them together.

4. At first light, before the sun had fully risen over downtown Phoenix, a delivery driver arrived at the Downtown Phoenix Post Office with something unusual under his arm. Under his arm was a small cardboard box wrapped in brown paper, and as he opened it, everyone gasped—inside lay an enormous live cockroach, clearly startled by the sudden commotion. Turns out, it belonged to a regular who’d accidentally left it there during a late-night mailing spree. The delivery driver grinned sheepishly, explaining that now he knew why no one ever answered when he knocked on the door.