DHL delivery - address

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<p>Hi, I’m applying to Brown and I’m going to send in the materials with DHL. However the address on Brown’s web site is directed to a PO box. I know that DHL doesn’t deliver to PO boxes. What do I do? Do I write the address anyway?
Thanks.</p>

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<p>Brown</a> Admission: Contact Information</p>

<p>Also, I know when I did the app both the PO and the street address were on the application.</p>

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<p>Use this - Brown has a receiving department that isn't a regular PO Box system, so as long as you don't let the shipping company think it's a PO Box (it isn't!), it's all cool:</p>

<p>Brown University Admissions
45 Prospect Street #1876
Providence, RI 02912</p>

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<p>the redundancy police have been notified.</p>

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<p>So when they say Box 1876, they don't really mean a PO Box?</p>

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<p>Brown's mail delivery works a little strangely. Mail sent via USPS is delivered as if it is being delivered to a PO Box. Mail sent via other carriers is accepted by mail services in your name, with them acting as your agent. You then take possession of it at a special window.</p>

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<p>It's not a United States Post Office, it's the University Mail Box system. DHL, FEDEX, UPS, will all deliver there. The United States Postal Service will also deliver there. The other companies just will not deliver to the US Postal Service Mail Boxes-- competitors, you know! It is confusing, for sure!</p>

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<p>Competitors indeed! The USPS has a statutory monopoly on mailboxes - no other courier service may place a package or parcel in a USPS box, and no service may carry mail that could be classified as First Class Mail unless is it 'extremely urgent'.</p>

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<p>I used to to work for FedEx and is it not they who do not want to deliver to PO Boxes. That wouldn't make any sense since they still get paid for shipping it. The USPS just won't let them and it's more than just being competitive. It's because the USPS does not want to store every UPS/FedEx shipment at the post office since they are not being paid for the use of their building as a storage facility by the express companies.</p>