<p>What's the best way to get stuff to campus/moved into your room if you're from out of state? Do most people ship it, and, if they do, what works best? Any insight would be great. Thanks!</p>
<p>What kind of stuff? I'm brining all my clothes and other necessities on the plane with me. I'm also bringing my laptop as a carry-on. I intend to ship my desktop computer.</p>
<p>Which specific items are you worried about?</p>
<p>In terms of shipping. You actually have a couple options. You should receive some kind of packet soon, or should have recieved already from Wustl Reslife. But here is a quick recap.</p>
<p>1) If you want to ship by UPS or FedEx. There are specific requirements that I really don't remember about where exactly to send your packages. This is in a brochure that Reslife sends you during the summer.</p>
<p>2) <a href="https://www.utrucking.com/washu/%5B/url%5D">https://www.utrucking.com/washu/</a>
People use this alot. You basically pack up your stuff in boxes, sign up on the website for delivery and utrucking will send for a UPS guy to come with labels and pick up the boxes and send them over to wustl where utrucking stores them until the day you move in. You then sign up for a time and day when you want them to deliver your boxes to your room for you (no lugging up and down stairs which in traditional forms is a pain). However, all this comes at a price of course! There is a sign up fee I think approx 100 dollars and then each box you ship I do believe is 30 dollars. you should email them about prices if you are concerned.</p>
<p>3) East Coast Express
I can't seem to find the website for this, but they should also send you something in the mail. Very similar to UTrucking. Both are student run and found on the South40 row.</p>
<p>If anyone remembers anything else I missed =D</p>
<p>Good Luck</p>
<p>My son was freshman last year. We live in California. He packed up a couple of large boxes and shipped via UPS. You mail them to your mailing address which is a PO Box on Wydown Blvd. He arrived early for Pre-Orientation and brought basic personal stuff (toiletries, towels, pillow and sleeping bag) and his father and I brought the rest on Move-in Day.
Since he did pre-orientation, he timed it so his boxes arrived a day or two after move-in day. He packed mostly personal items such as bedding and towels and personal items that were worth shipping. Don't forget it probably cheaper to buy office supplies than to ship them. Otherwise we shopped online with Bed, Bath & Beyond and picked up our order at the St. Louis/Clayton store when we moved him in.
We used the 2 suitcase per person allotment when we flew in, so between his father, he and I, we carried all his clothing in our luggage. My husband and I brought some of the empty suitcases home and left a duffel or two at school.
In our case, we knew we were coming for Parents' Weekend and my son was coming at home at Thanksgiving, so don't feel the need to figure out all your needs in the beginning.
During this past summer, he and some friends arranged to rent a storage space to keep their things until fall. It was very reasonable when split between 6 of them.</p>
<p>I definitely second buying lots of things when you get to school. There's a Target, Bed Bath&Beyond, Best Buy, Wal Mart, Office Depot and Linens&Things right near school (5 min drive, also on the shuttle route), so if your parents are coming and renting a car you can even get TVs, microwaves, etc here. </p>
<p>The one thing to remember... those stores are so close to school that they're absolutely CRAZY the week of move-in, so if you plan to buy some things, and can wait a week or two, its so so so much easier. (Or the idea of pre-ordering and picking up at the store, suggested by jpmom) Spiral notebooks end up selling out really quickly, especially once all the upperclassmen have moved in, so that's one thing you might want to bring with you (or at least one). In my opinion, if you have a rental car and you need a lot of stuff try going to an Office Depot, BB&B, etc slightly farther away... the longer drive is definitely worth it to avoid the hassle (so many people try to buy comforters at BB&B during that first week, its amazing, hehe).</p>
<p>I know some shipping companies don't ship to PO Boxes. Am I correct to assume that they will ship to a campus mailbox? And obviously since the shipped box won't actually go into our mailbox, is there a front desk at the mail building (?) where we get our packages? I'm planning on shipping my desktop computer and some other things.</p>
<p>I don't know anyone that's ever had a problem having a box sent to their campus box (since there's an office there to receive it). The mailroom is in the back of Wohl, the student center on the South 40... with the mailboxes, and right near Center Court. They send you an email saying you got a package... so you just have to print out the email and bring it to the front desk of the mailroom (it's easy to find) to get your packages.</p>
<p>Oh awesome. I'll be shipping a couple boxes then. Thanks.</p>
<p>actually, don't u have a campus address already can't they ship it to that? I'm just bringing everything in my car</p>
<p>Yeah, we have a campus address, but my concern was whether it was like a PO Box in that certain shipping companies won't ship to it.</p>
<p>If you put Campus Box #(your number right after the address for example 6515 Wydown Blvd Campus Box#1725 the company will just print that on the shipping label and ship to it and the South40 mailing center will sort it out and email you.</p>