Post offices are an integral part of our lives. We rely on them to send and receive mail, purchase stamps, ship packages, and much more. Given their importance in everyday life, it’s no surprise that post offices have inspired many clever riddles over the years. Below are 105 of the best riddles about post offices and mail delivery, along with their answers.
Riddles about Mail Delivery
1. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: A stamp
2. I’m paper thin and light as a feather, but you can use me to send a letter. What am I?
Answer: An envelope
3. What travels all over the world but stays in one corner?
Answer: A stamp
4. What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A mail truck
5. If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a whack and I’ll bounce right back. What am I?
Answer: A rubber stamp
6. I’m flat and rectangular, I’m stamped with a price. Send me in an envelope and your letter will arrive nice. What am I?
Answer: A postage stamp
7. What do you call a very quick letter delivery?
Answer: A rush mail!
8. Which letter can do the work of a postman?
Answer: Email
9. What do you call an angsty postcard?
Answer: A distressed mail!
10. Why did the letter arrive so quickly?
Answer: It had express postage.
11. How do letters travel around the world?
Answer: By air mail!
12. Why didn’t the stamp want to get sent in the mail?
Answer: It wanted to stick around!
13. What kind of mail does Dracula send?
Answer: Ghost mail!
14. Why did the envelope arrive late?
Answer: It got held up in the mail!
15. What do you call a shy piece of mail?
Answer: A covert letter!
Riddles about the Post Office
16. What building has the most stories?
Answer: The post office!
17. I’m neither rain, sleet, snow, nor hail but I can still stop the mail. What am I?
Answer: A Sunday
18. Where do envelopes like to sleep?
Answer: In their letter beds!
19. What do elves do at the post office?
Answer: They wrap all the packages!
20. What do you call a letter from a dinosaur?
Answer: Tyrannosaurus Tex!
21. Why did the postal worker go on vacation?
Answer: She needed to rela-xpress herself!
22. How does the ocean mail its letters?
Answer: It puts them in a current envelope!
23. Why was the envelope so exhausted after its journey?
Answer: It was completely stamped out!
24. What’s black, white and spread all over the post office?
Answer: A newspaper!
25. What did one stamp say to the other stamp?
Answer: I’m stuck on you!
26. Why do envelopes like gossiping?
Answer: They like to spread the news!
27. What did the stamp say to theenvelope?
Answer: Stick with me and we’ll go places!
28. Which U.S. state loves going to the post office the most?
Answer: O-hi-o!
29. Why was the postage stamp so shy?
Answer: It was afraid to get licked!
30. How does a crate of letters play music?
Answer: It forms a band!
Riddles about Mail Carriers and Postal Workers
31. What do you call a row of mail carriers?
Answer: A mail line!
32. Why did the postal worker go on vacation?
Answer: She needed to rela-xpress herself!
33. How does a mail carrier stay in shape?
Answer: Lots of cardio from delivering mail!
34. What do you call an angry postal worker?
Answer: Postal!
35. Why don’t mail carriers take coffee breaks?
Answer: It slows down their routine!
36. How does a postal worker organize their route?
Answer: They make a mailing list!
37. Why was the postal worker fired from their job?
Answer: They kept stamping their feet!
38. How does a mail carrier stay dry in the rain?
Answer: Rain mail!
39. What’s a mail carrier’s favorite genre of music?
Answer: Hip hop!
40. Why did the lazy postal worker get fired?
Answer: They kept mail-ing it in!
41. How does a mail carrier deliver the mail faster?
Answer: They run!
42. What type of shoe does a mail carrier avoid wearing?
Answer: High heels!
43. Why are mail carriers never bored on the job?
Answer: They’re always entertained by the address names!
44. What do you call a postal worker who always takes sick days?
Answer: A mail impediment!
45. Why do mail carriers love dogs?
Answer: They brighten up the delivery route!
Riddles about Packages and Boxes
46. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: A box
47. I have eyes but cannot see, a tongue but cannot talk. I’m not alive but I do grow. What am I?
Answer: A box/package
48. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A postage stamp
49. If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you won’t have me. What am I?
Answer: A secret/surprise package
50. What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel (mailed in a package)
51. I have cities, but no houses. I have oceans, but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map (mailed in an envelope)
52. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: Stairs (in the post office)
53. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove (mailed in a box)
54. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin (mailed in an envelope)
55. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock (mailed in a box)
56. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle (mailed in a package)
57. What gets broken without being held?
Answer: A promise (to mail a package)
58. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano (shipped in a large box)
59. What has four fingers and a thumb but is not flesh?
Answer: A glove (mailed in a box)
60. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book (shipped in a box)
Riddles about Addresses and Locations
61. What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish?
Answer: A map
62. What has 88 keys but can’t open a single door?
Answer: A piano keyboard
63. What building has the most stories?
Answer: The library
64. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: Stairs
65. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book
66. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove
67. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin
68. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle
69. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock
70. What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle
71. What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel
72. What is full of holes but can still hold water?
Answer: A sponge
73. What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow
74. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age
75. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M
Riddles about Letters and Writing
76. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove
77. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name
78. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel
79. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano
80. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book
81. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin
82. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle
83. What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle
84. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence
85. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age
86. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M
87. What belongs to you but others use it more than you?
Answer: Your name
88. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel
89. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano
90. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book
Riddles about Numbers, Math, and Measurements
91. What has 13 hearts but no organs?
Answer: A deck of cards
92. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and oceans but no water. What am I?
Answer: A map
93. What has 21 eyes but cannot see?
Answer: A die (dice)
94. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A penny
95. What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold
96. What question can you never answer yes to?
Answer: “Are you asleep yet?”
97. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future
98. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise
99. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name
100. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age
Riddles about Shapes
101. What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: An airplane
102. What has one head, one foot and four legs?
Answer: A bed
103. What has a face but no body?
Answer: A clock
104. What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
Answer: A stamp
105. What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A phone
Conclusion
Did you enjoy these riddles about the post office? They cover a wide range of topics related to mail delivery and post offices, from stamps and envelopes to mail carriers, packages, addresses, and more. Riddles are not only fun to solve, but they also encourage critical thinking skills. The next time you visit your local post office or receive a package in the mail, remember these clever riddles that celebrate the mail service we depend on.
