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Receiving Packages

Packages are available for pick-up once your receive a “Package Receipt Notification” from the Mail Center. You may get other notifications when a package reaches campus, but please give Mail Center staff time to identify and sort packages so we can help you quickly when you come to pick it up.

Rules

• The Mail Center does not allow pick of items using another individuals ID.

Campus stuffing regulations (still needed?)

Stuffing is sending of a mass mailer piece by a campus group to all students.

• Approval must be obtained from either Residential Life, Student Engagement and Leadership, or from the professor in charge.
• Approval from the Mail Center as to scheduling is required.
• Only 2 students may be in the Mail Center at a time to do the stuffing.
• All stuffing pieces must have an approval slip to put the stuffing in.

Other details

• “Mail is sorted and distributed in boxes by 10:30 a.m. each day.”
• “Students will keep the same mailbox for their entire stay at Beloit College unless the student is off campus for 1 year.”
• Brief description of how to open a mailbox.
• Details regarding how students receive their packages and mail.
• How to find a student’s mail center box number.
• Links to shipping forms, if to be done in advance.
• Mail forwarding.
• Approximate times that certain companies make their deliveries or pickups.
  • When should students bring a package to be sent if to go that day?
• Bulk mailing?
• “Students are encouraged to check their mailboxes 1.4 million times per week.”
• Student employment opportunities
• Diagram of a properly addressed letter.
• Purchasing of stamps, boxes, and envelopes, potentially including prices, options, etc.
  • “The MAIL CENTER has only FedEx and Priority boxes. You must have you own packaging otherwise.”