9.5.3 Packages and Registered Mail

The mail room receives packages for offices, employees, and boarding students. While the mail clerk takes “reasonable” precautions with incoming packages, personnel cannot be responsible for replacement cost of missing packages, including those signed for by mail room personnel. If this arrangement is not acceptable to those receiving packages, alternate shipping arrangements should be made.

Mail Room personnel will notify recipients of incoming packages by email. Because storage space is limited, recipients should pick up packages in a timely manner. When picking up a package, the recipient should verify the package and signature with mail room employee. Students must pick up their own packages.

The mail room ships packages for campus offices and employees. Packages must be properly wrapped to meet USPS specifications (no paper wrappings, no masking tape, and package packed full enough to protect the box from caving-in). If an item requires packaging or repackaging by mail room personnel, the sender must pay a fee of $3.00 per package which includes shipping materials (oversized or specialty items may be billed at a higher rate).