The UPS Store

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At The UPS Store, a regular noticed something peculiar one morning. Every time he dropped off his package, the employee behind the counter would whisper, ‘Don’t forget to check your mailbox tonight.’ Curious, but not alarmed, he ignored it until… Finally curious enough to act on it, he checked his mailbox that night and found a small package containing a single sheet of paper with just one word scribbled on it: ‘Parcel.’ Turns out, everyone who’d visited The UPS Store got the same mysterious message. When asked, the employees laughed and said it was their way of making customers smile—‘our little inside joke,’ they called it.

2. At The UPS Store, a regular noticed an odd package one day. It was addressed to ‘The Patientest Person’ with no return address. Curious, the employee opened it carefully—and found nothing but a note inside: ‘I’m sending this to the patientest person I know. Please deliver it back to me.’ Turned out, it was from a neighbor who had been waiting forever for their package.

3. At The UPS Store, a regular asked one day: ‘Why does every box here look like it’s going to Hawaii?’ A delivery driver then replied with a straight face: ‘Actually, sir, that’s because our warehouse is located on the other side of Honolulu.’ Everyone burst out laughing, including the usually serious employee who was helping them pack. The regular shook his head and said, ‘I’ll never understand why you people always have such strange answers.’

4. At The UPS Store, a regular noticed something unusual one afternoon. As he approached the counter, he saw a small, neatly wrapped gift on the floor near the exit. Curious, he picked it up and found it was addressed to no one in particular. Smiling, he decided to keep it as a joke gift from an anonymous friend. Later that evening, his wife joked, ‘Who’s our mysterious new neighbor?’ He replied, laughing, ‘Apparently, someone who knows us better than we know ourselves!’