People share 16 bizarre post office encounters and they're a hoot: 'Someone tried to ship a rooster'
Being at the post office isn't always boring and monotonous; it often involves unhinged shenanigans, like these 16 wild experiences.
If you've ever visited the post office, you know it's usually a routine process. However, amidst this mundane task, some experiences leave people baffled. From encountering a troublesome customer to people getting impatient with clerks, there are a number of atrocities that go down to make one chuckle. Sometimes it's a first-time visitor, and other times it's a regular who still can’t seem to grasp how things work. Picture the long line you’re forced to stand in for what feels like hours, and yet there’s always someone who leaves you astounded—or laughing hard.
A man named Michael (@michael___wave) shared a post on X, recounting his unhinged experience while sending mail. He wrote, "Astonishing how whenever you go to the post office, the queue in front of you is made up almost entirely of people who appear to have ended up at the post office by accident, have never visited a post office before or have no idea what they want out of the experience." Inspired by his post, several others shared their own peculiar encounters while sending mail, each more entertaining than the last. Here are 16 bizarre instances at the post office that are not for the faint of heart.
1. When you don't get the concept of Amazon
Was behind a man asking why his Amazon parcel hadn’t turned up and he just couldn’t understand that the post office had nothing to do with Amazon. Kept repeating the order number he’d written on a piece of paper asking the poor clerk to “just check”
— Emma Cummings (@EmmaCummings) November 23, 2024
2. Getting all the tea
Two females in front of me in post office seemed astounded at discovering that an apple flavour energy drink tasted appley.
— Sideways (@Sidewayssince) November 24, 2024
This was discussed around them trying to figure out which of them, maybe both, might be pregnant & how best to find that out.
They were late 20s/early 30s
3. A rather unique sense of urgency
I stopped in the other day about 8:15am. A woman came in behind me in house slippers, a bath robe, and a shower cap. What was the rush? I have a suspicion she wasn’t headed to work right after.
— Ronald Brown (@theronaldbrown) November 24, 2024
4. Since you've been gone
Put that together with workers are in slow motion mode. Lord help you if they leave the counter to get something
— Sufistar (@Sufistarz) November 23, 2024
5. What's the hurry?
Everyone is in line for something.
— priscilla goulding (@pgoulding29) November 24, 2024
When this has happened to me when someone wants to push in I tell them to start at the back of the queue and ask every single person if they mind if they push in. When/if they get to me I say no. 😂
6. Guess who?
Used to work at a post office and a fully grown adult wanted to post an unwrapped item with no envelope and he didn't know the address but wanted it tracked (???)
— Amazonian Cosplay✨ (@megabethbob) November 23, 2024
7. Mystery mail
I was behind a man this week trying to collect a parcel that he had no card for, no idea what he ordered or where from other than he had doorbell footage of someone in high-vis at his front door - so it MUST have been obviously Aus Post leaving something that was now missing.
— Shane Bryan (@ShaneBryan_IT) November 23, 2024
8. She's had a rough morning
I had to go to the post office (in nyc) for a passport issue and I said “good morning” to the clerk who grunted at me. “I have all my forms here.” “Yeah we’ll see about that” she replied. I did indeed have all my forms but forgot to sign one. “See told you.” Yeah.
— it’s Marie. Just Marie. (@gbbkk4) November 24, 2024
9. Same but different
I was once in line behind an elderly lady with a pile of Xmas cards that were going to different states. She asked the clerk what the postage was for EVERY SINGLE STATE. The clerk tried to explain that postage was the same throughout the US, but it just didn’t get through.
— Pelagia (@exeter77) November 24, 2024
10. I just want to send some mail
I find when I go to the post office, the entire line of people in front of me is there to do anything but mail something, and taking ages to get their stuff done.
— moorhunhe (@moorhunhe) November 24, 2024
11. Guilty
been to the post office several times out of necessity but somehow each time i still have no idea what i'm doing
— joe (@jowzzyhq) November 25, 2024
12. Beginning the finishing touches
I once saw someone buy brown paper & sellotape & proceed to wrap a parcel actually at the cashier's window. He asked to borrow the cashier's scissors very politely, which was nice.
— Dr Mark Kirby (@Kirby5Mark) November 24, 2024
13. That's one way of putting it
Dated a post office worker and can confirm this is true. Post offices are filled with an evil miasma that drains people of their minds and sends them into an endless drift.
— adult 🦜 (@USSR1987t) November 23, 2024
14. Royal clash
One time I was behind a woman who wanted to ship a 12 piece China set in one of those bed-in-bag, clear plastic zipper bag. 🥲
— jessica (@thejessijames) November 24, 2024
15. Can they do that?
Went a couple months ago and kept hearing a rooster caw, thought it was a ring tone but it kept happening, turns out someone was there to ship a rooster
— Anaïs 🦋 (@isiepup) November 24, 2024
16. This one wins
Last time I was in there an elderly man asked to buy a book of stamps so the clerk asked what design and pulled out a picture of the different ones “he said I don’t give a damn just pic one, like I give a damn if my stamp has flowers or dogs on it”
— Upton🇺🇸 (@byrnesmom) November 24, 2024
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