Because Postal Workers Are Legendary for Having Such Great Senses Of Humor

Post office dude: Where is this going to?
Chick: Germany.
Post office dude: Is there anything hazardous to your health in there?
Chick: Uh no, just magazines. And well, some of my hair that's stuck to that tape on the package as well.
Post office dude: Oh, I don't know what customs has to say about that. They will have to deal with that. But wait, I will check.
Chick: That was a joke! I'm not sending hair!
Post office dude: What, but you just said…
Chick: Wow. It was a lame joke! You can literally see half of my scalp under that tape. I tried to cut it with my teeth and and some of my hair got stuck under it… Nevermind!
Post office dude: Ugh. $16.56, please.

–Post Office, Brooklyn Heights

Posted on April 22, 2015
Brooklyn, Clerks, Customers, Hair, Health and Hygiene, Money & Class, Post Office, Questions, Stupidity

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST

Copy boy: Mr. Murdoch on the line.

The news editor on duty picks up the phone.

News editor: Right. Right. OK…Source? No source…Right…It’s Gephardt. OK.

–NY Post Offices

Posted on March 8, 2015
9 to 5-ers, About Celebrities, Bosses, News, Politics, Post Office

What Have They Ever Done to Hurt Anyone?

Effeminate guy on cell phone: …And we don’t want any fat German ladies
in the house.

–Post office, 23rd and Lex

Overheard by: Megan Buckley

Posted on January 30, 2015
Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, On Cell, Post Office

Most New Yorkers Mind Their Pees in Queues

UPS employee: Ma'am, you're going to have to calm down.
Angry customer: Lady, you're lucky I ain't got a hot cup of piss on me right now, 'coz you would be wearing it.

–Post Office, Lower East Side

Overheard by: Amused yet disturbed

Posted on January 27, 2015
Anger Management, Clerks, Customers, Lower East Side, Pee, Post Office, Threats, Weirdness

Worst. Slave Girl. Ever.

Girl #1, applying for passport at window: Go get in line over there and get me some stamps.
Girl #2: What?
Girl #1: A book of stamps! Get me some stamps. And it had better not be over $20.
Girl #2: What if they have lotsa kinds of stamps? Like, which one should I get?
(girl #1 stares blank)
Girl #2: I don't buy stamps.
Girl #1: This isn't a library! Get a freaking book of stamps!

–Post Office, 42nd St

Posted on December 16, 2014
For Sale, Girls, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Money & Class, Offers and requests, Post Office, Shopping

The White Devil's Wednesday One-Liners

Older black man to nobody in particular: Ain't nothin' done changed in two-hundred years! White folks is still goin' round makin' a mess and then makin' a black man come in and clean up after them…

–Post Office, Gun Hill & Jerome, The Bronx

Asian girl: Do white people eat sandwiches for dinner?

–Grand Central

Overheard by: Spec

Black teen girl: If a sister is feeding a white bitch, you know she is fucked up.

–T.G.I. Friday's

Overheard by: Chris K

Black chick: But can a Frenchman be a honky?

–Park Slope, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Hunter

Linguistically savvy hobo: The term "cracker" originated from a man named Robert Whitely. It was used to refer to people as "white trash".

–37th & 3rd

Latina woman to elderly mother: We gonna find you a seat soon, mami. If I gotta beat up white bitches… Let's go.

–3rd & 1st

Overheard by: j

Posted on September 18, 2014
Age/Aging, Asians, Black People, Cleanliness, Fighting and ass kicking, Food, Girls, Grand Central, History & Geography, Hobos, Latinos, Men, Moms, Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Old People, One-liners, Parents, Park Slope, Post Office, Psychology, Questions, Race, Restaurants & Cafes, Street, Teens, The Bronx, Threats, Train Station, Union Square and East Village, Wednesday One-Liners, Words

…Fair-Trade Heroin?

Scruffy man to another, walking by where a food cart usually is: Hey, that food cart ain't there?
Other man: You eat there! That's supporting terrorists!
Scruffy man: So! That shit's cheap!

–Post Office, 33rd St

Posted on August 22, 2014
Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Food, Men, Money & Class, Post Office, Questions, Terrorism

Next Guy in Line: “Laid!“

Old man: Wait–what you think you doing? This here's the line!
Lady in nurse scrubs: I just want to get a passport application.
Old man: Well, I just want to get a box. Everybody in this line just wants to get something.
(turns to next person in line)
Old man: What you want to get?
Next person in line: Some stamps.
Following person in line: A money order.
Old man: See, honey–they all just want to get something!

–Post Office, Bed-Stuy

Overheard by: Tigertail

Posted on June 26, 2010
Brooklyn, Money & Class, Nurses, Old People, Post Office, Questions, Strangers, Wishes & desires

What You Never Knew About Supergirl's Upbringing

Mom to screaming girls: If you do not stop right now, there will be no tv for a week.
Girls: Nooooo!
Mom: That or a spanking.
Girl #1: I'll take the spanking.
Mom: You don't want the spanking. I will spank you so hard you won't sit for a week.
Girl #2, yelling: When are you going to beat me? I want you to beat me!

–Post Office, Staten Island

Posted on October 20, 2009
Girls, Moms, Parents, Post Office, Staten Island, Threats, TV, Violence, Wishes & desires

Annette's Mental Speed Is About the Same As That Of a Post Office Line

Man #1: Excuse me, do you know when this post office closes?
Woman: I don't know.
Man #2: I think it's open all the time. It doesn't close.
Woman: You mean it's open 48 hours?

–Post Office, 32nd & 8th

Overheard by: EthanK

Posted on July 19, 2009
Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Men, Post Office, Questions, Strangers, Stupidity, Time, Women