Are shipments directly to your dorm building possible?

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<p>I won a flat screen tv in a raffle this weekend and am considering sending it to school, along with a big (waist-high) mini-fridge by Purolator or Fedex. </p>

<p>Only thing is that I assume that the move from the mailing room in Lerner to my actual dorm (Nussbaum) will be a gigantic pain in the ass as I'd need to rent a bin, get it to Lerner (how, I don't know) and then up and down and through Broadway. Oy.</p>

<p>It would be much easier to have the boxes delivered at the dorm and pick them up from the lobby. </p>

<p>Has anyone here every done that or know if it's possible (given the incomplete address)?</p>

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<p>Yes, it is possible. Don’t tell them that it’s a dorm address that they will be delivering to and give them the actual building address as if it were a regular apartment. Give your phone number and give the shipping people specific instructions to call you when they’re dropping off the package instead of leaving it with the “doorman.” The security guard won’t hold anything for you. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Unless it’s over 40" then carrying a flat-panel (what you most likely mean) from Lerner to anywhere isn’t that bad. I had a 32" delivered to Lerner and it weighed like 5 lbs so no problem walking it myself - no bin needed.</p>

<p>Check the weight and then decide. It’s definitely much safer to get it sent to Lerner…</p>

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<p>Yeah, I might Lerner up the TV (flat panel, you are correct sirr) and arrange for the fridge, which definitely would need a bin to be carried, to arrive at Nussbaum.</p>

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<p>We bought my son a big dorm fridge at University Housewares and they delivered it to his dorm room right then and there (as in as soon as we paid, they put the fridge on a dolly and wheeled it right to the room).</p>

<p>momoffive</p>

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<p>How much was it, may I ask?</p>

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<p>It might be possible at Nussbaum because that’s actually a proper apartment building with ‘real-world’ tenants, as opposed to just a standard dorm building. If you have it shipped to 600 W 113th, with a delivery note “Leave with Doorman”, the doorman may just keep it.</p>

<p>But it really won’t kill you to walk two blocks with the thing. You didn’t exactly buy one of these: <a href=“http://home.roadrunner.com/~tuco/looney/acme/acmeanvil2.jpg[/url]”>http://home.roadrunner.com/~tuco/looney/acme/acmeanvil2.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;