Email from UPS Services for Amherst College. Worried!

Applying to College
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<p>Hey
I'm having awful butterflies in my stomach right about now and its not just cause my vast majority of decisions are coming later today. I've got an email from some UPS service giving me a tracking number for my 'package' from Amherst. On package type however it says, Letter. (LETTTER = THIN = OH NO GODDAMNIT) and that it was mailed about 3 hours ago today.
I'm international. Do colleges tend to do that with international mail? Did everybody who applied to Amherst get this? WHAT IS THIS? WHERE AM I?</p>

<p>okey bye.</p>

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<p>Why would UPS send you email, and how the heck would it have your email in the first place?</p>

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<p>haha, EXACTLY the same question I'm sort of pondering on THIS side of the screen =S
Infact I quote the highly interesting email
Number of Packages: 1
UPS Service: EXPRESS
Shipment Type: Letter </p>

<p>Tracking Number: (i deleted it)
Invoice Number: Amherst Material </p>

<p>Click here to track if UPS has received your shipment or visit
<a href="http://www.ups.com/WebTracking/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ups.com/WebTracking/&lt;/a> on the Internet.</p>

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<p>Check out the link by another CCer.</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=163955%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=163955&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>REceived the same email as you did.</p>

<p>Sounds like positive news to me.. Colleges are unlikely to waste $$$ on courier mail for rejection letters..</p>

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<p>Amherst would have put the email address for recipient on the shipping documents. Completely normal. Also, don't read anything into the word "letter" it all has to do with weight categories at either the shipping end or the UPS end. </p>

<p>The only question is: does the school pay for express service for rejection letters or do they send those out earlier by USPS and acceptances, because they're heavier, by UPS? That may sound counter-intuitive, but may large organizations get a better price deal with UPS than USPS for packages (letters) with some weight. Can you find out when it was actually sent? That could be a clue.</p>

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<p>its definitely an acceptance letter, i really dont think they will waste money on rejections.. at least most schools don't</p>

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<p>Aah. Okay so I can atleast stop hyperventilating..(and start searching frantically for someother thing to pass the time by obsessing over)
Thank you guys :) and if any of you are waiting for decisions, best of luck!</p>

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<p>Are you an international student? This could be the reason for UPS. I remember D's Amherst acceptance coming priority mail.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I'm international..=\
Wow, im keeping my fingers crossed..I LOVE Amherst</p>

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<p>Please come back and let us know.</p>

<p>Wishing you all the best!</p>

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<p>Thankyou! I will :)</p>