<p>Is there any way to find my mailing address on the AU portal? If not how do I figure out what it is?</p>
<p>Your name
The name and room number of your dorm (e.g., Anderson 312)
American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington, DC 20016</p>
<p>Technically, 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW.</p>
<p>During welcome week, they’ll tell you a ZIP+4 ZIP code. The Plus 4 will be a unique identifier for your dorm. They say that if people will use it, your mail will get to you faster.</p>
<p>OMGosh, forgot the NW! Just a few months after graduation, and I’ve lost all my DC savvy. Is the plus 4 new? Never heard of it before. D found the biggest hang-ups were in getting timely pick-up notifications for packages the UPS tracking system said had arrived. I got the feeling they would just sit around until someone felt like dealing with them. I don’t think plus 4 will help there.</p>
<p>I agree about the packages not being delivered to the students in a timely manner, especially at the beginning of the school year. Plus, last year, my son (who was in Hughes) had to go to Leonard to pick up his packages for a number of weeks at the beginning of the semester. A bit inconvenient, to say the least.</p>
<p>MommaJ, I wouldn’t know whether the ZIP+4 is new. They told my daughter about it at the start of last year, but that was her freshman year, so our family’s institutional memory doesn’t go back any farther than that.</p>
<p>I don’t think the ZIP+4 is new but when I use the USPS site to address a package I’m mailing to my D, the USPS system keeps rejecting the +4 number and keeps correcting it with the main zip. It gets to her anyway. Although one time the package arrived on a holiday weekend and by the time she was able to get it, some of the food I had in there was spoiled. :(</p>
<p>This has the specific dorm ZIP+4 info:[Receiving</a> Mail for Students](<a href=“http://www.american.edu/finance/mailservices/receivingmailst.cfm]Receiving”>Mail Information for Students and Parents | American University, Washington, DC)</p>
<p>The only issue my daughter has had with packages is the weird package pickup hours. It is only in the evenings and, if she is in daily rehearsals for a play, she has a really hard time making it there.</p>