<p>Has anybody here had any bad issues/stories regarding receiving post/mail in the dorms? I'm sure it's different from school to school, but I do a good bit of sending/receiving, and am curious if it'd be a good idea to just invest in a PO box or have it sent home. (I'm referring to packages moreso than letters)</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I think most schools have mail centers where you need to show an ID in order to pick up packages, so it shouldn’t be much of a worry.</p>
<p>Well this is just my college, but the people that do it are so incompetent. You can pick up a package after a certain time (they put a slip in your mailbox for large packages). About three times they misplaced my packages and I had to wait a day or two for them to find them, even though the mail room was so small. One time I got something send in which they had to sign for, and the signature and date showed up online. I knew they got it, so went to pick it up, and they told me it wasn’t there, and I was like no you dingaling, you just signed for it. Then they actually went and looked.</p>
<p>My boyfriend had similar problems. He had a couple of important things mailed to him (debit card) and they lost it. He had them send it again to my apartment and it wasn’t a problem.</p>
<p>The people at my school seem to be extremely careless.</p>
<p>The post office at my school is fantastic. It’s all ladies that work in there, and they’re really nice and we never have a problem with lost/misdelivered mail.</p>
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<p>Often they’ll sign for a huge load of packages at once from the delivery company and then sort them based upon whatever system they use is. I know at my school if you went by the delivery confirmation from UPS/USPS/FedEx instead of waiting for an e-mail from shipping they’d tell you to come back later after they had organized all of the boxes that had come in. I mean, it’s fairly understandable how they’d like to get things organized on their end first so they aren’t constantly digging under piles and piles of boxes for that student that just couldn’t wait an extra 30 minutes.</p>
<p>i never got my maxim magazine in the mail…</p>
<p>I know they didn’t sign for a huge load of them. I saw the guy deliver a singular package (while I was walking up to my dorm room) to the desk, with the company that I ordered from (it was an expensive manual camera for a class). I never got a packing slip (I waited until mail pick up time), and if the signature wasn’t online (double checked to make sure it was my package I saw) I wouldn’t have had enough proof to make them take 2 seconds to go look. Seriously, the people at the desk and little mail room, for the dorm, not the entire school, were on youtube all day watching videos. I can’t tell you how many times I was told to “wait a sec” because they had to watch their video.</p>
<p>Thanks for the posts guys.</p>